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Stanwood baseball beats Mavs to lock up district spot
Jake Campbell finished 2-for-2 with two runs scored and two RBI and Henry Hedeen added two RBI on a pair of hits, including a double, and the Spartans scored three runs in the first and two more in the second to take the lead. Tyler Givens settled down after initially getting shelled and got Stanwood to the fifth tied 5-5.
The Spartans pulled away with what head coach Colby Knudson called "some good old fashioned small ball." The rally included several singles, a walk, and a squeeze to take the lead.
"We like to get after it, have fun, hit the ball around the park a little bit ... try to get away with something if we can," said Knudson.
Wyatt Jeans took over for Stanwood on the mound in the fifth and finished it. He struck out four and gave up one run. "(Jeans) just kind of shut the door when we needed it to be shut the most on our season."
Stanwood (6-10 league) won its season series with Marysville Getchell (5-11) to give the Spartans the advantage if the two teams finished tied, which, with one game remaining, is the best the Chargers can do.
"It feels really good. We've been in every game, in almost every game we've played," Knudson said. "They've worked really hard to come to a common goal. ... I'm proud of these kids for trying to get over the hump, trying to find a way to sneak in. We'll sit down tomorrow and try to address how we're going to move forward."
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Elliott Reece, Reid Maughlin (4), Chace Diemond (6) and Brian Marty. Tyler Givens, Wyatt Jeans (5) and Mason Garcea. WP--Jeans (1-1). LP--Maughlin. 2B--Henry Hedeen (S). Records--Meadowdale 8-8 league, 9-10 overall. Stanwood 6-10, 6-13.
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Final Score: LA Lakers 104, Milwaukee 88
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Dwight Howard finished with 31 points and 16 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers downed the Milwaukee Bucks, 104-88, at Staples Center.
"This could be an average night for him when he gets fitter and more comfortable with the system," Lakers guard Steve Nash said about Howard, who returned to action on Sunday after missing three games with a shoulder injury.
Kobe Bryant also poured in 31 points, while Metta World Peace finished with 12 and Antawn Jamison contributed 10 with eight rebounds.
Nash added eight points and 11 assists for the Lakers, who have won two straight following a six-game slide.
Monta Ellis scored 17 points to pace Milwaukee, which lost two of its last three games.
Beno Udrih followed with 14 points and seven assists, Brandon Jennings had 12 points and Mike Dunleavy dropped in 10 in defeat.
"We missed a lot of shots, but mainly because of their pressure," Bucks interim coach Jim Boylan said. "They played a really good game, a really good defensive game."
Los Angeles raced out to the early lead as Howard scored six points and World Peace connected on a pair of 3-pointers in a game-opening 14-4 run.
The Lakers' advantage reached as high as 23-11 on a pair of Bryant free throws with 5:38 left in the frame before the Bucks closed out the first quarter with a 16-6 run to get back within 29-27 entering the second.
It remained a one-possession game from there as the teams traded baskets until Jamison sank consecutive triples to hand Los Angeles a 37-33 edge.
Milwaukee responded with an 11-4 push to take a 44-41 lead before the Lakers scored eight of the next 10 points to go back on top for good, 49-46.
Los Angeles carried a 57-50 cushion into the third quarter, where the Bucks battled back from an 11-point deficit to get within 69-67 with five minutes to play, but they could not even the score and were held at arm's length from there en route to a 79-73 deficit at the end of the third.
The Lakers then pulled away in the fourth quarter with a 24-7 run over the opening seven-plus minutes of the stanza, giving LA a comfortable 100-80 lead.
The Bucks never got closer than 16 points for the remainder of the contest.
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Lakers forward Pau Gasol missed his fifth straight game with a concussion ... The Bucks are 3-17 in the their last 20 trips to Los Angeles ... Bryant has scored 20 or more points in 22 straight games ... Milwaukee fell to 3-2 under Boylan.
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Lieutenant Frank Bullitt is assigned to give round-the-clock protection to a star witness in a case against organized crime. When the witness is murdered by a pair of hitmen, Bullitt is held responsible, and he decides to go after the hitmen on his own.
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In the 1920s, four women who are trying to come to grips with their lives and relationships leave their rainy, English homes for a vacation on a remote Italian island. Though the four are nearly strangers at first, each find common ground with one another and are transformed by the end of their getaway.
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After agreeing to take over her father's stables, housewife Penny Chenery finds herself an unlikely race horse owner in a male-dominated business. She wins a foal named Secretariat on a coin toss, an event that begins a spectacular journey which concludes with the winning of the 1973 Triple Crown.
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Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses is living a quiet life alone until a hit squad shows up to kill him. After surviving the assault, Frank reassembles his own team to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.
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Ray, an Iowa corn farmer, feels compelled to act after hearing a mysterious voice in his cornfield saying "If you build it, he will come." He builds a baseball diamond on his land and the ghosts of great players start emerging to play ball. But, as Ray learns, this field of dreams is about more than bringing former baseball greats out to play.
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Former CIA black-ops agent Frank Moses and his partner Marvin Boggs are brought out of retirement when a powerful Cold War weapon known as Nightshade. With assassins hot on their trail, Frank and his team set out to find the one scientist who can unravel the mystery of Nightshade and help them save the world.
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Enjoy a transfer in a private vehicle with a driver provided from the airport to your hotel.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas– Former North Gaston High pitcher Jake Buchanan is now just a phone call away from playing in the big leagues.
Buchanan led all Texas League pitchers in the first half of the season in low earned run average and walks plus hits per inning pitched while helping anchor the AA Corpus Christi Hooks' pitching staff, and the Houston Astros rewarded him Sunday with a promotion to its Triple A affiliate in Oklahoma City.
"You really can't think too much about getting called up. You have no control over that," Buchanan said last week from his former team's home at Whataburger Field. "You want to play in the big leagues, but God has a plan so you just go out and do your best and hope for the best."
Minor leaguers make seven-hour bus rides to away games, pay team dues for meals and many of them, including Buchanan, save a few dollars by living with host families.
"When you're here, it's hard to imagine what it's like there – bigger crowds, bigger stadiums, great money," he said. "But it's still the same game."
Buchanan will now report to the Oklahoma City RedHawks after participating in Tuesday's Texas League All-Star game at Northwest Arkansas.
From Oklahoma, he'll be just one step away from Houston and Minute Maid Park.
Buchanan's path to professional baseball has not always been smooth.
Major league teams did not pay attention to Buchanan when he graduated from North Gaston High in 2007. Just one team sent him an information card expressing interest, he said.
At 6 feet, 200 pounds, scouts saw him as undersized, not someone they could project staring down big league hitters.
But scouts took notice of Buchanan's command while he hurled three years at North Carolina State and in the summer collegiate Cape Cod League.
In 2010, the Astros took Buchanan with its eighth round pick. Growing up in Dallas, he'd always dreamed of being a Brave, but remains grateful to the Astros for giving him a shot.
"Once you get drafted by someone, it's just awesome for that to happen," Buchanan said.
Buchanan made Single A stops in Troy, N.Y., and Lancaster, Calif., before making it to Double A ball in Corpus Christi.
But after two years of steady progress, Buchanan took a step backward in 2012.
He would finish that year with a 5.25 earned run average, and gave up 12 homers in 142.1 innings.
He caught the eye of the Astros this year with a record of 7-2 and an ERA of just 2.09 in 82 innings of work.
"Last year was pretty tough. This year's a lot more fun when you're not struggling," Buchanan said.
Coming to the pros, Buchanan had to make an adjustment from the collegiate players using metal bats. He also faced an upgrade in talent.
"I think the approach of hitters is a little better here," he said. "In college, you have four or five hitters, up here, everyone's been drafted. Everyone's a hitter."
And while Buchanan's journey toward the big leagues takes him to another city far from home he said he still keeps in contact with friends from high school and college through social media. Minor league baseball phone apps allow family and friends to keep tabs on his performances.
He talked about seeing a Sun Drop truck on his way to the ballpark, and says there are many things he misses from being away from his Gaston County home.
"I can eat a fried livermush sandwich for breakfast," he said with a laugh.
To make it to the major leagues Buchanan said he needs to work on his sinker and cutter pitches. He needs a better curveball to bring a change from his 85- to 90-mph fastball.
Scouts like his command and his ability to force batters to hit the ball on the ground.
In Corpus Christi, Buchanan and the other players would arrive at the stadium around 1 p.m. each day despite most games not even starting until 7 at night. Players only get a day off about twice a month, he said.
"You're here every day and the pay's not great, but you're betting to play baseball so you love it," he said.
And one day, Buchanan hopes, the 'A' on his dad's baseball cap will stand for Astros rather than Atlanta.
"The Braves are still my dad's favorite team," he said. "I guess at least until I ever make it to the Astros."
You can reach Kevin Ellis at 704-869-1823 or twitter.com/TheGazetteKevin.


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Tuesday - 12/18/2012, 5:19am EST
A survey of several dozen senior leaders in the government acquisition community paints a bleak picture of challenges facing the acquisition workforce and perhaps an even bleaker picture ahead.
Among the worries of dozens of federal officials are that budget cuts threaten to undo what gains the government has made with regard to the size and quality of its corps of acquisition professionals, and a simmering war between the government's audit and acquisition communities continues to prevent procurers from getting what agencies want from contracts.
Stan Soloway, president, Professional Services Council
The Professional Services Council, an association of government contractors, and Grant Thornton, a consulting firm, conducted the research. Interviewers gathered input from 40 leaders across government. Most were senior acquisition officials, but the roster also included congressional staff members, Office of Management and Budget officials and others.
PSC and Grant Thornton have been conducting the same study since 2002. The most striking and troubling feature of the responses is how little they've changed over the intervening period, said Stan Soloway, PSC's president.
"We were struck not just by the fairly clear consistency of the concerns they have, but by the fact that a number of the most critical issues being raised are the exact same issues that have been raised by respondents," Soloway told reporters during a conference call. "If you're asking a similar group of people the same questions for 10 years and their answers come back pretty much the same for 10 years, I think it's fair to conclude that whatever you've been doing to address those problems isn't working."
The report, subtitled "an unabated crisis," is a fair summary of its findings as a whole. With respect to the size and quality of the acquisition workforce, 71 percent of respondents said things have actually gotten worse over the last two years.
Shallow bench
One major challenge is pure and simple demographics. Acquisition leaders say their most experienced people are getting very close to retirement, and the bench that's in line behind them is fairly shallow.
The problem is especially acute in the information technology field, Soloway said.
"The IT workforce in government has a 7-to-1 ratio of people over 50 versus under 30," he said, citing statistics from the Office of Personnel Management. "Put that together with what we found in this survey, and it suggests that it's time for a really, really serious re-look about how we're developing a very critical government workforce."
As to the quality of the workforce, the survey found that training opportunities through formal institutions such as the Defense Acquisition University and Federal Acquisition Institute have become more abundant, even while quibbling with the quality of the education those organizations provide in some specific areas.
But leaders said acquisition expertise isn't just about training, it's also about experience and mentorship. And those mentorship opportunities are declining as experienced people get promoted or retire, Grant Thornton's Phil Kangas said.
"We asked about how prepared the workforce was on negotiation skills, how prepared they were for the prospect of sequestration, and about complex IT acquisitions," he said. "There's a clear recognized need for those skills and a recognized lack of capacity for those skills. There's clearly issues as to how prepared the government is on those fronts."
Competition is tough for skilled people
Another key challenge is the cutthroat competition the skills agencies need in their acquisition workforces.
Part of the issue is that some of the major competencies that are critical to a lot of acquisition jobs, such as systems engineering, are in short supply across the economy. But the study's authors said in government the issue isn't so much that private industry is luring people out of the civil service, it's that agencies are fighting for a limited pool of talent among themselves.
Alan Chvotkin, vice president, Professional Services Council
"The agencies are waiting for someone else to do the training, and then using grade increases or other inducements to get them to move from one agency to the other," said Alan Chvotkin, PSC's vice president. "It's more intra-governmental than it is folks moving to the outside."
The Army's Contracting Command is one example of that phenomenon. It made the decision to completely shutter its Washington contracting office last month because other federal agencies regularly were stealing the contracting personnel it had spent significant time and money to train.
"Some of the other services had told me that they don't even do a training program. They just wait and hire our guys away," Maj. Gen. Camille Nichols, ACC's commanding general, said in a recent interview with Federal News Radio. "In a place like the National Capital Region, it was very difficult to retain our best people."
Acquisition leaders in Washington also are deeply concerned about agency budgets being in a state of perpetual uncertainty. Among their concerns, they cited the prevailing notion that even if sequestration doesn't occur, cuts to the civilian workforce are a near certainty.
Maj. Gen. Camille Nichols, commander, Army Contracting Command
The government went through a wave of what are now widely regarded as unwise cuts to the acquisition workforce in the 1990s. But Soloway said there's widespread concern that those lessons have already been forgotten, and that acquisition will be cut in equal proportion to the rest of the civilian and military payroll as the government gets more austere.
"We know the cuts are coming. The question is whether they're going to be taken strategically or not," he said. "In hindsight, thinking about it more strategically, you might not have cut all those areas equally in the '90s. If you look at the technology requirements, you realize you need to protect and enhance your technology and acquisition workforces because they're going to be the most essential. That's not normally the way it's done in government, because government tends to be very egalitarian in how it approaches these things. I think the lesson of the 90s, and what the folks in this survey are saying, is that that may be how we've done it in the past, but we can't afford to do it that way anymore."
Need to balance oversight requirements
The report also concluded government contracting experts are growing increasingly frustrated with the sense that they spend more time responding to various overseers — OMB, the Government Accountability Office, inspectors general and other auditors — than they do performing their day-to-day-missions.
The PSC findings are by no means a call for the abolition of oversight, Soloway said. But he said they do reflect a view from within the acquisition community that it's more important to successfully survive an audit than to successfully negotiate a contract.
"It's not just the overworking of the workforce with requirements that don't add any value, it's the message it sends to your workforce when compliance becomes more important than the outcomes," he said. "We have people who are afraid to do critical thinking, and they're increasingly wrapped around rigid, often non-value-added oversight."
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The British housewife-turned-Iranian-spy doing more than a bit of net curtain twitching
British housewives might have a reputation for being nosey parkers but, according to a leaked US government report, one woman has taken peering over the garden hedge to a new extreme.
According to the Pentagon-commissioned document, during a trip to Tehran back in 2002, 53-year-old Anne Singleton and her Iranian husband, Massoud Khodabandeh, 56, were blackmailed into working as spies for the Persian nation's secret service.
The report, written by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress and privately circulated in Washington, allegedly claims that the couple agreed to spy on opponents of the regime in return for saving the life of Khodabandeh's imprisoned brother.
Iranian agents also reportedly blackmailed the couple by threatening to confiscate Khodabandeh's mother's extensive property in the pariah state's capital.
The couple are said to have been targeted because of their links to revolutionary opposition organization, the People's Mujahideen of Iran (MEK).
The frumpy brunette was trained to fire weapons at the MEK's camp in Iraq but later fell out with the group, describing it as a cult.
The report claims that: 'In 2002 Singleton met in Tehran with Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran [MOIS] agents who were interested in her background. She agreed to co-operate with them to save her brother-in-law's life.'
It goes on to say that following training from the MOIS, Singleton returned to England and, in the winter of 2002, launched the iran-interlink.org website, which, according to the site, aims to 'inform as widely as possible about the real nature of the…[MEK] cult and to act as a pressure group in this regard.'
However, the pair are accused of creating the site to tarnish the name of the opposition group on behalf of the regime. MEK was formerly designated a terrorist organization by the E.U. and U.S. but following their decision to disarm in 2003, this label has been lifted.
'Khodabandeh and Singleton appear to lead a small number of individuals in an aggressive demonization campaign against the MEK,' the report says.
The same document also claims that after her trip to Tehran in 2002, Singleton 'made many trips to Iran and Singapore – the country where the agency contacts its foreign agents.'
This is not the first time the Leeds-based couple have been accused of being spies: they were also named in a 2007 report by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom called 'Spying For The Mullahs: Iran's Agents In The UK.'
Singleton vehemently denies the allegations.
British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, reported the mother of one as saying: "The report was withdrawn. It wasn't published anyway. It was leaked deliberately by a journalist in America."
"The MEK just made all that up. Yes, I have been to Iran, but they have concocted a picture which is entirely false," she added.
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One reason is enough: During all these years where the Iranian regime was killing and torturing the peafull demonstrators, and the world was condemning it unanimously no boday has seen any thing in this houswife site except deminizing the main and the strogest oppsition group. No body can be fooled by her desperate denial.
Everybody in the Iranian community knows that Anne Singleton is a spy of the bloodthirsty mullahs of Iran and she and her husband are despised for selling themselves to the ayatollahs of Iran
Its an easy way of finding out if what they say are really true. Just look at their website and see where their source is from. Obviously Iranian regime. I mean why would a so called British housewife build a website to tarnish and Iranian opposition? It doesn't make sense. Both husband and wife are agents of the Iranian regime and the Iranian people know this since a long time. These bastards have their hands covered in blood and will pay for it one day!


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As part of the University's contract review process, UAB IT is responsible for reviewing any University contract that includes an IT or IT related component prior to such contract being executed. The information and sample addendum, below, provide details on how to ensure that your IT related contract can be routed for execution in a timely manner. Questions on the process or requirements should be directed to UAB IT
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- Contracts* for software, subscriptions, or services (including software maintenance) that include
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What can I provide my vendor in advance so they are aware of the contract requirements?
- For most agreements the following two addendums will be added during the routing process. You can provide those addendums to your vendor in advance for their review and acceptance/signature prior to routing at UAB and include them in the routing packet.
- The general UAB Addendum (found on the Financial Affairs contract website) which covers information related to State, University, and Legal issues/clarifications. Any changes to the UAB addendum must be approved by University Contracts.
- The UAB Information Technology Addendum which covers additional confidentiality, information security, and liability language to mitigate any issues related to the items/concerns above. Portions of the IT Addendum may be applicable to only certain agreements and that applicability is detailed in the various sections of the addendum. Any changes to the IT addendum must be reviewed and approved by UAB IT.
- For agreements that include HIPAA (health related information) a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) may also be required. For information related to the BAA see the UAB HIPAA website.
What do I need to ensure is included in my routing packet to UAB Contracts?
In addition to the requirements shown on the Financial Affairs contract review process website the following items are needed to ensure a timely review:
- For RENEWAL agreements*: please ensure that a copy of the original, underlying, governing agreement that was previously executed between UAB and the vendor is included with the routing packet, including any subsequent addendums. If that original agreement included the IT Addendum and UAB Addendum, no additional language may be necessary as long as the renewal document references the original agreement and not a new document. If the original agreement did not include the IT Addendum, please have it reviewed/executed by your vendor and attach to the renewal agreement when routing.
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The first thing I do when visit a new country in Asia is look for the best local wet market. It's usually colorful and full of activities. I particular love the astounding freshness and good-looking ingredients. This is the place where locals shop for fresh fish, gruesomely anatomical arts of meat as well as catch up with what's going in the neighborhood. Obviously a wet market is wet.
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Walter S Gilliam MSEd, PhD
Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychology; Associate Professor of Psychology; Director, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical Group
Office of Student ResearchChild Study Center: Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy; NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training
Research Interests
Child care and early childhood education; Intervention policy analysis; Early childhood mental health consultation; Child and family social policy; Young child development more...
- M.Sc., University of Kentucky, 1993
- Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1996
Selected Publications
- Gilliam, W.S. & Frede, E. (in press). Accountability and program evaluation in early education. In R.C. Pianta, L. Justice, W.S. Barnett, & S. Sheridan (Eds.), Handbook of early education. New York: Guilford Publications.
- Gilliam, W. S., & Sosinsky, L. S. (in press). Measuring the environments of early care, education and intervention programs for children in poverty. In L. C. Mayes & M. Lewis (Eds.), A developmental environment measurement handbook. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Zigler, E., Gilliam, W.S., & Barnett, W.S. (Eds.). (2011). The pre-k debates: Current controversies and issues. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.


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|Michael Gallant, M.D. Receives American Academy of Pediatrics Award
Michael Gallant, M.D., enrolled in Yale University Medical School fully intending to become a psychiatrist. But that was before he went through Yale's general surgery program, working with doctors he liked and respected enormously - and developing a passion for the specialty of plastic surgery.
"The thought of fixing birth defects - that was always the thing ever since that first year of medical school," he recalls. "Wow. It's still great."
Now the great work he has done in his career of 30-plus years, including the past five on the staff of All Children's Hospital, has been honored with the Philip O. Lichtblau Award from the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics - making Dr. Gallant the first plastic surgeon and first ACH physician to receive the recognition.
The award, presented in late June at the Don CeSar Resort, is given annually to a children's surgeon who has contributed significantly, either regionally or statewide, to the Children's Medical Services Program. It celebrates the spirit of Dr. Lichtblau, a renowned orthopedic surgeon who served as a ship's surgeon in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. He did his job without formal training or the benefit of a residency, due to the urgency of the times, and once even performed an appendectomy on board a small ship while being directed over a radio by a surgeon who was airborne.
After the War, Dr. Lichtblau eventually practiced at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and then relocated to West Palm Beach, always known for providing care to anyone regardless of their ability to pay. He was hailed as a social innovator who had the first non-segregated office practice in Palm Beach County in the early 1950s, caring for the poor and wealthy with the same outstanding attention and expertise until his death in 2001.
For Dr. Gallant, who now treats patients at All Children's new Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center, the honor underscored the values and work he has embraced for so long.
"It's validation, that's all," he said. "You have to realize I have this incredible job where most weeks somebody says something to me that's incredible. And I know the value of that. Nothing feels like that in professional life. Yesterday I did a cleft lip repair and the father was crying for joy, and he took me aside and said some really lovely things. Those kind of moments mean so much."
Here are some other career reflections from Dr. Gallant in the wake of his award and its meaning:
On Dr. Lichtblau: "He was the same tradition that I was a part of and that I saw myself in: the tradition of the private practitioner who makes a living in his private practice so he can take care of kids. In my field, there were many outstanding people who did that. And here's a man, Dr. Lichtblau, who was gutsy enough to be on a ship and operate on people without a residency. It's scary enough when you've had the residency. But he had the courage to do that and then come back and become a terrific doctor."
On his greatest influence: "My hero was a guy named Mike Hogan, a doctor in New York City. He was a private practice physician who made many contributions. For instance, the operation that I do for cleft palate kids, who have speech problems secondarily, is one he developed. He was in private practice and one of the finest pediatric plastic surgeons in the world. So that's my tradition."
On his choice of a profession: "I remembered that right before I left medical school, one of the professors whom I hadn't spoken to in a while was shocked to hear I was becoming a surgeon. He said, 'You don't look like a surgeon; you look like a pediatrician. Are you sure you're making the right decision?' But people are made of parts, and there's absolutely a part of me that's a surgeon. It was just a gut feeling. I loved it. And it just so happened that the place I chose to go to medical school had a bunch of surgeons who were fine people. Of all the faculty members at Yale, they were the ones who were most involved in patient care.
The first week I was on rotation, we had a patient who was in really bad shape and the kindness the staff showed this patient in changing his dressings was remarkable. There's something very special about cleaning somebody up. What a human being does for another human being. It's about comfort. It's about dignity. And it's about decency. I was hooked."
On being both a Julliard-trained pianist and surgeon: "I had this very intense musical education. And especially for young children, piano teaching is all about technique. And here was a specialty as a plastic surgeon where technique really counted."
On whether he ever considered a music career: "Never. My parents were school teachers, very bookish people. My father, in addition to being an English teacher, was a wonderful musician. Part of my mother's family was on the faculty at Julliard. My mother's idea was that I would learn the piano so that when I became a doctor, I could play after I got home from work and relax, and invite other doctors over to play chamber music. But the truth is, surgeons come home and they go to sleep. Instead, I'm the guy who plays the piano in the lobby as people are coming in and out of the cafeteria, which I really, really love."


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Adrian Maung MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma)
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical Group
Office of Student ResearchSurgery: Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Surgical Emergencies; MSURG Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Surgical Emergencies
Research Interests
Improvements in trauma care; Invasive and non-invasive monitoring in critical care; Ventilation weaning; Immunological changes after injury; more...
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
- M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2000
Selected Publications
- AA Maung and LJ Kaplan. "The Role of Fibrinogen in Massive Injury" Minerva Anestesiologica 80(1):89-95 2014
- AA Maung and LJ Kaplan. "Waveform Analysis During Mechanical Ventilation" Current Problems in Surgery 2013 Oct;50(10):438-46
- JJ Dubose, M Lissauer, AA Maung, GL Piper, TA O'Callaghan, Z Luo-Oweb, K Inaba, O Okoye, A Shestopalov, WD Fielder, P Ferradam A Wilson, J Channel, FO Moore, DB Paul, S Johnson; the EAST Pneumatosis Study Group. "Pneumatosis Intestinalis Predictive Evaluation Study (PIPES): A multicenter epidemiologic study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma." Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 2013 75(1):15-23


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Pierre Spies on his return to form, steroid allegations and his quest to be the best No 8 in the world.
Over the course of our conversation Pierre Spies speaks openly about a range of interesting topics – the pain of missing the 2007 World Cup due to a rare blood disease and how religion helped him stave off depression in that period, life as a newlywed and the benefits of not having to drop his wife off at home after a night out, Schalk Burger's explosiveness in Test matches despite his laid-back attitude to training, and the won't-go-away rumours of steriod use – none of which capture the attention more than a simple response to a simple question.
'Who is the best No 8 in world rugby?' I ask. I fully expect him to rattle off some boring bullshit like: 'That's tough. Ryan Kankowski is an unbelievable player, and that bloke from Wales, whatshisname? Powell? Ja, Andy Powell, that boy can play a bit. And the Irishman, Jamie Heaslip, he's coming through nicely. Oh ja, and Rodney So'oialo …'
Instead, I'm met with a thoughtful gaze before the most unexpected response. 'That player is still in the making. It's me.'
'Wait a minute, you're breaking protocol here,' I say. 'You're supposed to sing the praises of the first half-decent players who spring to mind. So, I'll ask again for fear of misquoting you: who is the best No 8 in world rugby?'
'Look, I'm not going to make excuses for having confidence in my ability,' Spies fires back. 'If you look at the guys out there, not much separates them. I'd like to think I have that extra bit that sets me apart. I know it'll be perceived as arrogance, like: "Listen to this guy talking himself up. He needs to learn his place." That's the way we are as humans isn't it? We're encouraged to aspire to be the greatest, then shot down when we do. But it's not arrogance. I know my limitations and strengths and I'd like to believe that I can be the best in the world.'
I'm incredulous by now, stunned at what I'm hearing, but completely overjoyed to be listening to a player spitting unbridled truths.
'I know I have a long way to go,' he says. 'But I want to get to the point where coaches, players and the public think about the best No 8s in the game and my name is at the forefront of their minds.'
We'll discuss the physical and technical evolution of Pierre Spies at length, but from the outset there's no denying that a cognitive evolution has been at the heart of his return to something resembling his best form.
This is my sixth Spies interview in four years. We've spoken extensively about playing on the wing in his rookie Super Rugby season, the death of his father, becoming a Springbok, a nightmarish debut Test and how that was the catalyst for his transition from man-child to man, an outstanding 2007 Super 14 campaign which culminated in him kneeling down on the King's Park turf thanking God, who he communes with regularly, and his decision to specialise at eighthman.
But this is the first time I encounter this Spies. He has progressed beyond the self-effacing kid whose offerings were often a hybrid of the mundane and clichéd. There's a self-belief that was missing or concealed in his formative years. A self-belief that allows him to confidently share his vision of being the best No 8 in the world.
Evolution in the world's elite players is triggered by an evolution in their mindset. The body is at the complete mercy of the mind and since the end of the 2008 season Spies's mind has been barking orders at his body with the intensity and relentlessness of a commanding officer in the US Marine Corps.
My previous encounters with Spies mean I'm well aware of how physically imposing he is. I'm no expert on conditioning, but to my mind he had reached his physical ceiling prior to the 2007 World Cup, so I'm fully expecting a man mountain to come striding through the doors of a cafe close to Loftus, where we've agreed to meet, but wholly unprepared for what I am about to encounter.
I interviewed Spies in Cape Town just before news of his illness broke, and then it seemed the Boks' kit manager would have to put in an order for custom-made apparel. No professional sportsman, I thought, could get more muscular than that. At least not naturally. But we'll delve into that nagging issue in a minute.
Yet Spies is bigger and even more imposing than he was 18 months ago. He looks like a lab experiment who had spent that period doing nothing more than being intravenously pumped with protein and lifting weights the size of a five-year-old. My hand disappears in his as we greet and I catch myself measuring my thigh and wondering if it's bigger than his bicep. Brutal honesty leads me to the conclusion that it is, in fact, not.
I'll throw some stats your way to underline the majesty of the beast who has just declined a meal and a Coke, preferring mineral water instead. 'I'll eat later,' he says. 'What? A baby rhino?' I wonder. Spies power cleans 135kg. He dead lifts 240kg. He bench presses 165kg. Only mildly impressed? Wait, here are some more. He is able to do pull-ups with a 50kg weight between his legs. He can launch his 108kg body 1.4m onto a raised platform, sprints for 835m before slowing on a repeated sprint-ability test and has a body-fat percentage of 6.5.
'Pierre has been blessed with amazing genes and has maximised those,' Bulls conditioning coach Basil Carzis says. 'As humans we don't really know what our full physical potential is. We think we're pushing the limits but the reality is that we're not even close most of the time. Pierre refuses to die wondering.
'Mediocrity doesn't sit well with him. In the gym he pushes himself to lift the most, jump the highest and run the fastest. We have competitions between teams in the gym and you're feeling pretty confident if Pierre is on your side. Physically he's well above the norm. I've heard the term freak used to describe him and that's probably accurate.'
But there's a nagging thought in my mind: What if this freak is a drug cheat?
Since the modern era of drug testing began at the Pan Am Games in '83 I've seen more elite athletes banned for the use of performance-enhancing substances than I care to remember. I recall sitting transfixed as US sprinter Marion Jones took gold at the Sydney Olympics 100m final in 2000, wondering who on earth would ever be as quick, and I watched juiced-up baseballer Barry Bonds hit his 654th career home run at Yankee Stadium, craning my neck to see the ball land in the car park outside. Gods among mere mortals, I thought. Floyd Landis, Ben Johnson, countless swimmers, weightlifters, cyclists and sprinters … drug cheats the lot of them.
Everything inside me wants to believe that Spies is different. I want to believe that true athletic phenoms, ones with no intruders in their bloodstream, still walk the earth. He speaks candidly about the rumours which have dogged him throughout his senior career and, rightly or wrongly, I'm sold.
'What can I do about those rumours? Nothing,' he says with a resigned tone. 'I can't shape what people think. But those people who make those sorts of allegations aren't there with me in the gym when everyone else has gone home. They don't see what I eat, the lengths I go to to look after my body. They're not there when my mates are going partying and I turn down the invite because I know it will affect the way I train. They're not there. They don't see what sacrifices I make.'
OK, let's establish something: this is not an article hailing the arrival of a Messiah. Spies is flawed and doesn't at any stage attempt to plaster over the cracks in his game. At 23 it would, of course, be grossly unfair to expect him to be flawless, as it would at 24 or even 25.
Yet such is his extraordinary talent that we continue to judge him by an exaggerated standard. It's partly his own doing. How dare he raise our expectations of him with performances like he delivered against England at Loftus in 2007, or more recently, in the Super 14? Silly boy. How dare he give us glimpses of heaven then facilitate our return to a reality that pales in comparison.
'I set a high standard for myself but at times it seems like I have to make 15 linebreaks, 100 tackles and score five tries carrying four defenders on my back across the tryline,' Spies laments. 'I want to be a player who dominates matches because I don't think I do yet. It'll take time but I will get there.'
Heyneke Meyer is the authority on Spies. Before he resigned as the Bulls' director of rugby in 2007 he'd been considerably more than Spies's coach. He was and remains a father figure and confidant.
'He's been phenomenal recently – really, really good – but we haven't seen the best of Pierre yet, not even close, and won't for a couple of years to come,' Meyer says. 'He was great in 2007 but mentally his illness would have slowed his development. He's showing glimpses of his best form again, but it's important to keep in mind everything he's been through and the fact that he's only 23.
'Physically he's superb and in this regard is unmatched by any No 8 in world rugby. He doesn't have all the technical skills of a great No 8 yet, but whenever he gets his hands on the ball he has an explosive quality that you just can't coach. Give him a year where he stays injury free and he'll become the best No 8 in the world.'
No analysis of Spies would be complete without the insights of former Bok coach Jake White, who watched Spies being buried alive on debut (the 49-0 hammering by the Wallabies in Brisbane in 2006) and then saw him kick the casket lid open, dust away the soil, and stride purposefully into the rest of his Test career.
'People are talking about him like they did when he arrived on the scene in 2006,' White says. 'I think Pierre is back to where he was when he was playing his best rugby in 2007. The second try he scored against the Blues [in the Super 14] was a replica of the one he scored against England in 2007 at Loftus where he busted through four tackles. It was sensational and gave me goosebumps.
'But we have to remember that he still needs to mature as a player. He's so big and strong we forget how young he actually is. People see him as something that he'll be one day, but isn't yet. He'll get mentally stronger and that will bring about improvements across the board. It's not that he disappears in tight games as is the perception, it's that he's not as mentally tough as he will be when he's 26, 27, 28. He'll learn the shortcuts and when he does, performances like the ones against England and the Blues will become the norm.
'He has all the attributes to become the best No 8 the world has ever seen.'
By Ryan Vrede
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