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EUROBASKET NEWS REPORT - 2/15/2008Copyright © 1997-2007 Eurobasket
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Kleon Penn (211-C-86) pulled 13 rebounds and blocked eight shots as the Cowboys snapped a four game losing streak by beating Texas State 81-77 in Southland Conference action here Wednesday night. McNeese State lifted their league record to 3-6 and their overall mark to 9-12.
The Cowboys held a 39-34 halftime lead and then fought down a late Texas State challenge.
After leading by five points at the end of the first half, McNeese went out by nine points midway the second half but couldn't get its lead into double figures. With only 1:45 left in the game, Texas State cut the lead to 74-72 on a layup by Brandon Bush.
The Cowboys then scored the next six points, all on free throws, for an 80-72 edge and put the game away.
For one of the few times this season, McNeese was outrebounded, the Bobcats holding a 48-42 edge.
The Cowboys did have the upper hand in the shooting percentages. McNeese made 44.1 percent of its field goal attempts (26 of 59) and 31 percent of its three point shots (5 of 16) and also made 63 percent of its free throws (24 of 38).
Both teams scored 26 field goals but the Cowboys had the big edge at the free throw line, making 24 while Texas State hit on 14 of 21.
This game is the only regular season contest between the two schools as McNeese plays in the eastern division of the conference and Texas State is in the western division.
Korisliiga, Round 32: YMCA LPR lost by 38 pts vs visitor Honka (Espoo) on Wednesday. This loss is probably the biggest YMCA has suffered at home
for years. Kataja (Joensuu) defeated Korihait (Uusikaupunki) by eight pts. 38-year-old Andre Foreman (198-F/G-69, college: Salisbury St.) is still going strong: 25 pts.
Baboucarr Bojang has finally a chance to play on Top level in Finland. Bojang has left Pohjanmaa, Kauhajoki and will be on KTP (Kotka) roster for the
rest of this season.
YMCA Lappeenranta - Honka 68-106 (30-63) Adrian Henning 24, Petri Virtanen 16. Juha Stwen DNP. - Jukka Matinen 22, Petteri Koponen 21).
Kataja - Korihait 78-70 (44-40) (Andre Foreman 25, Anssi Kinnaslampi 16 - Kyle Shiloh 19, Darius Glover 19. Glenn Stokes DNP).
Eurobasket Germany had the chance to sit down and talk with Justin Griffin (193-G/F-83, agency: Scorers 1st Sportmanagement, college: Hawaii-Hilo). He played for then-BBL club Nurnberg in 2006/07, where he averaged 7.2ppg and 2.6rpg. Justin just finished his season in Mexico with Union de Zacatecas (12.1ppg, 2.7rpg, 2.2apg) and is ready to continue this season with a new club.
Coming straight out of NCAA 2 school University of Hawaii-Hilo, how was the transition to Nurnberg and the BBL for you?
Going to Nurnberg was fantastic, I couldn't have asked for anything better. As for the BBL, the transition was not hard,but there were a lot of adjustments I had to make. I was playing against true professionals every night, so everyone on the court could play. Overall it was a season of ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I learned a lot from my coaching staff and teammates.
Describe your game a little bit. What are your strengths and weaknesses on the court?
I grew up just shooting the ball, but as I'm growing as a player I have really expanded my game. I love getting out in transition and using my speed for easy baskets. My strong area is the mid range game, and I am a good 1 on 1 defender. Also I am a student of the game, I tend to learn things fast or work on them till I get them so my work ethic is definitely a strength. My weak points or you can say things I need to improve on is the understanding of the game, but that just comes with experience. You just can't get by on athleticism. I would like to become more creative especially passing out of penetration.
How did your season go in Mexico for your team and for you personally?
Going to Mexico was a personal decision, being that I am half Mexican. I wanted to experience the way of life and also the style of play. As a team I feel like we could have accomplished more, especially with the amount of talent we had. We finished 9th in our division, just shy of the playoffs. Individually, I played well, but as a player you always think you could have done a lot more. I learned so much from a couple veterans on the team not only about basketball but life in general, Mexico taught me how to be a professional on and off the court.
What is the biggest difference between playing in Mexico and Germany?
I would have to say the sizes at the 4 and 5 spots. They were a little undersized compared to the BBL. Germany had a controlled style of play, more half court sets and a balance in scoring throughout the team. Mexico was full of athletic guards, who's main purpose was to score the basketball and really not use there teammates. Also the referees weren't consistent, but hey everyone always has to complain about those guys.
Where would you like to play in the near future?
I want to make my way back to Europe in a strong league. Being that this is my second year playing professional basketball, I have come to realize that winning is everything. I am willing to do what ever it takes to WIN.
Thanks for your time Justin and Good Luck for the future!
Any team that is interested in Justin Griffin please email him at email@example.com
- The Final Four of Excellent League schedule was published by Jordan Basketball Federation (JBF) as follows:
* Round 1 (Tuesday 19/2):
Zain - Arena
Al Riyadi/Aramex - Orthodox
* Round 2 (Sunday 24/2):
Arena - Orthodox
Zain - Al Riyadi/Aramex
* Round 3 (Wednesday 27/2):
Arena - Al Riyadi/Aramex
Orthodox - Zain
* Round 4 (Friday 29/2):
Arena - Zain
Orthodox - Al Riyadi/Aramex
* Round 5 (Sunday 2/3):
Orthodox - Arena
Al Riyadi/Aramex - Zain
* Round 6 (Wednesday 5/3):
Al Riyadi/Aramex - Arena
Zain - Orthodox
The assistant coach of Jordan National Team portuguest Mario Gomes will be montoring the final four games to choose the best for the NT.
- Zain Basketball Team received to big shockes in the last few days, The team's point guard Sam Daghlas will not be available for the rest of the season after he tore his ACL in the left knee, The other shock is Rasheim Wright who will be put for at least 2 months following a sergery.
We wish for Daghlas and Wright the best and hope to see them soon on the court.
- Al Wihdat and Al Awdeh are the relegated teams after the end of the 1st stage of Excellent League, A big question mark for the performance of Al Wihdat this season despite having a good roster this year but these things happens in basketball.
- College SC's american star Jamal Ward (198-F-79, agency: ProSportsCareers, college: Chattanooga) is now part of ASU basketball team for the reminder of season, ASU is playing only in Jordan Cup and Ward will be a big add for them esspecially that he was one of the big scorers of the first stage of Exellent League.
With This years 54 Game Season, it winds down to 12 Games Remaining on Tap & Into the Play-Off's.
Dongbu Promy still maintains its 1st place position while
Samsung Thunders Move Into 2nd - KT&G Kites & KCC Egis Tie for 3rd,
LG Sakers place 5th while ET Black Slam Round out the top 6 spots,
Closing in on 6 is SK Knights at 7 KTF - MOBIS - And Orions 8-9 &10.
Things Can change at the drop of a loss or some losses as each game will be
Of true significance to The Race to the KBL Championships to
Set the tone of secured places for the KBL Match-Ups,
Only 6 teams will advance while the Number 1 and 2 get the Buys
And wait for the winners of The 3rd - 4th - 5th and 6th place teams to battle to advance.
There is no expected or Dominate Team that has Superior strength this year over any of the
Ten Teams, although Coach Chun Chang Jin of
Dongbu Promy has shown the ability to stay in 1st place from the begining with total
Consistancy And Team Leadership.
KT&G SAMSUNG KCC & LG SAKERS maintain 500 and above play while SK KNIGHTS
ET BLACKSLAM and KTF Stay in the Hunt.
Latvijas Basketball League
Division II
February, 12
ASK Juniors - RNS-D/Livani 78-86 (17-20; 19-26; 20-17; 22-23)
Freimanis 28, J.Rozitis 16; Baranovskis 18, Kalnins 16, Slesers 13+12as
February, 13
LU/Ridzene - BK Zemgale 61-77 (21-18; 18-17; 13-24; 9-18)
Mizis 18+14reb, Zeidaks 14+10reb, Ei.Tukiss 13; Martins Berkis (198-F-85) 28, Raiskums 17, A.Lagzdins 10
Lietuvos Rytas lost against TAU Ceramica 81:84 (18:18, 15:26, 24:21, 24:19).
Both teams played equally in the first quarter. TAU started the second quarter with a run 8:0. Hollis Price (186-G-79, college: Oklahoma) three pointer reduced the deficit to 4, but the Spanish went to the dressing rooms at halftime with an 11 point advantage.
Kenan Bajramovic (206-F-81, agency: Beo Basket), Chuck Eidson (202-F-80, college: S.Carolina) and Marijonas Petravicius (207-F/C-79, college: S.Carolina) (207-F/C-79, college: S.Carolina) started a very important run, which cut the deficit 44:47. But the hosts didn't used a chance to take the lead in this game, Zoran Planinic (198-G-82) made a lay-up, then Mirza Teletovic (205-F-85, agency: Beo Basket) scored 5 points in a row, 48:54. Rytas was trailing by 8 in the start of the last period.
Hollis Price scored 5 points in a row and reduced the deficit to 4, but then Andrius Slezas got a unsportsmanlike foul for roughly stopping Pablo Prigioni (186-G-77) break away. Only 3 minutes were remaining and the hosts were behind by 9. Hollis Price and Kenan Bajramovic were the best players of Rytas tonight. The Bosnian hit a massive three, which gave hope for Rytas fans, because they were behind only by 2 points with just 15 seconds was remaining. Igor Rakocevic (191-G-78) was fouled and he missed his free throws. But unfortunately for the local fans, Hollis Price lost the ball. The last attack was desperate and TAU Vitoria achieved their first vistory in TOP 16.
Hollis Price scored 23 points, Marijonas Petravicius knocked down 18 points and 10 boards. Tiago Splitter (211-C/F-85, agency: Interperformances) led the visitors to the victory by scoring 17 points. Mirza Teletovic landed three 3-pointers in the crucial moments of the game.
Lietuvos Rytas : Hollis Price 23, Marijonas Petravicius 18, Kenan Bajramovic 15.
TAU Ceramica : Tiago Splitter 17, Zoran Planinic 11, Mirza Teletovic 11.
Eurobasket Germany had the chance to sit down and talk with Justin Griffin (193-G/F-83, agency: Scorers 1st Sportmanagement, college: Hawaii-Hilo). He played for then-BBL club Nurnberg in 2006/07, where he averaged 7.2ppg and 2.6rpg. Justin just finished his season in Mexico with Union de Zacatecas (12.1ppg, 2.7rpg, 2.2apg) and is ready to continue this season with a new club.
Coming straight out of NCAA 2 school University of Hawaii-Hilo, how was the transition to Nurnberg and the BBL for you?
Going to Nurnberg was fantastic, I couldn't have asked for anything better. As for the BBL, the transition was not hard,but there were a lot of adjustments I had to make. I was playing against true professionals every night, so everyone on the court could play. Overall it was a season of ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I learned a lot from my coaching staff and teammates.
Describe your game a little bit. What are your strengths and weaknesses on the court?
I grew up just shooting the ball, but as I'm growing as a player I have really expanded my game. I love getting out in transition and using my speed for easy baskets. My strong area is the mid range game, and I am a good 1 on 1 defender. Also I am a student of the game, I tend to learn things fast or work on them till I get them so my work ethic is definitely a strength. My weak points or you can say things I need to improve on is the understanding of the game, but that just comes with experience. You just can't get by on athleticism. I would like to become more creative especially passing out of penetration.
How did your season go in Mexico for your team and for you personally?
Going to Mexico was a personal decision, being that I am half Mexican. I wanted to experience the way of life and also the style of play. As a team I feel like we could have accomplished more, especially with the amount of talent we had. We finished 9th in our division, just shy of the playoffs. Individually, I played well, but as a player you always think you could have done a lot more. I learned so much from a couple veterans on the team not only about basketball but life in general, Mexico taught me how to be a professional on and off the court.
What is the biggest difference between playing in Mexico and Germany?
I would have to say the sizes at the 4 and 5 spots. They were a little undersized compared to the BBL. Germany had a controlled style of play, more half court sets and a balance in scoring throughout the team. Mexico was full of athletic guards, who's main purpose was to score the basketball and really not use there teammates. Also the referees weren't consistent, but hey everyone always has to complain about those guys.
Where would you like to play in the near future?
I want to make my way back to Europe in a strong league. Being that this is my second year playing professional basketball, I have come to realize that winning is everything. I am willing to do what ever it takes to WIN.
Thanks for your time Justin and Good Luck for the future!
Any team that is interested in Justin Griffin please email him at email@example.com
And the final reckoning begins.
The drama unfolds Friday with Purefoods looking to keep its winning tradition in the pro league's most prestigious tourney
and Sta. Lucia out to carve its own niche.
They battle for first blood in the 2007-08 Smart PBA Philippine Cup best-of-seven Finals at 7:20 p.m. at the Araneta Coliseum.
A slam-bang duel is expected right in the series opener with the protagonists likely to come out strong from a four-day rest.
Each one is raring to go to battle in this finale which has the elegant Commissioner Jun Bernardino Trophy at stake.
League legend Francis Arnaiz and Filipino world boxing champions Nonito Donaire, Gerry Penalosa, Donnie Nietes and Florante Condes
have been invited to do the ceremonial toss in the Finals opener.
While practically all the players are harping on their dream to win the championship, the warring coaches are not looking far ahead, focusing on Game One.
'I'll take this one game at a time. Sta. Lucia is dangerous. All I've done is our preparation for the opening game,' said Purefoods coach Ryan Gregorio .
'They swept me in two games in the eliminations but this is a new ball game. We've made our preparation for the series opener and I think we're really
ready,' said Sta. Lucia coach Boyet Fernandez .
Neither team lacks motivation and inspiration with the Giants out to tie the Crispa Redmanizers' record of five all-Filipino crowns and the Realtors out to end
a seven-year title drought by winning the most coveted championship in the pro league.
Landing the all-Filipino Finals for the first time in franchise history, the Realtors are eager to make the most out of it.
The Giants, meanwhile, want their all-Filipino winning tradition to live on.
'We've done many firsts in this tournament and we might as well go all the way to win our first all-Filipino championship,' said Fernandez.
'After all our hard work, we made it to the Finals. We'll do whatever it takes so as not to let this chance slip away,' said skipper Dennis Espino.
The Giants don't think they're any less hungry though they've won the all-Filipino crown four times before and they're in their 12th Finals appearance in this very tourney.
'The way I look at it, winning a championship is like eating three meals a day. You may have had your breakfast or lunch, but you'd still eat because you'll ultimately get hungry still,' said Gregorio.
Purefoods and Sta. Lucia are dead even with 16-9 win-loss records after the semifinal round but many feel the latter enjoys tremendous momentum going into the series.
A team which had never finished better than third in an all-Filipino tourney before, the Realtors are in a joy ride heading to the championship series. Sta. Lucia has marked its campaign in the tourney with several franchise records, including a streak of eight straight wins, 12 triumphs in all in the eliminations, automatic entry into the semifinals and a first-ever all-Filipino Finals appearance.
But Gregorio insists you throw everything out of the window when you're in the Finals.
The consensus among PBA coaches is that the two teams are evenly matched. Looking at the stats, no team also enjoys a tremendous edge.
Sta. Lucia and Purefoods are No. 1 and No. 2 in the league on defense and No. 8 and No. 7 on offense.
The Giants are averaging 94.16 points for the conference while shooting 42.3 percent from the field while the Realtors are norming 93.76 points on a 40.8 field goal marksmanship.
Purefoods has the edge in rebounding but Sta. Lucia is better in assists, steals and blocks. The Giants are logging 53.20 rebounds, 15.4 assists, 5.8 steals and 3.2 blocks a game as against the Realtors' 47 rebounds, 19.6 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.6 blocks per outing.
Fernandez doesn't mind the numbers, saying if they win, it's all because of defense.
Gregorio says they will battle the Realtors tit-for-tat. 'If they hold us, grab us and are allowed by the refs, we'll do the same,' said the youthful Purefoods mentor. (NC)
This afternoon Moncho Lopez , the former Spanish national team Head Coach, signed an agreement that will make him the new Head Coach for Portugal until the next European Championship in 2009.
The Portuguese were looking for a young coach with quality and still experience enough, which Moncho Lopez seems to have.
Moncho's curriculum shows quality, as he coached the Spanish national team from 2002 to 2004. They won the bronze medal in the European Championship in 2003 in Sweden. He recently spent 2 seasons in Leche Rio and past season he coached Caja San Bernardo.
The assistant coaches will be Portuguese- Rui Alves remains with the national team and Rui Miranda will be the 2nd assistant coach as well as being the team's physiotherapist. He is also a former international player.
The promise is to maintain the level that Portugal conquered in the past European championship in Spain.
After short try-out period the managemnt od Alpos Sentjur decided to ink Rodrick Stevenson (190-G-76, agency: ProSportsCareers, college: Francis Marion) ex Pizza Express Primetel Apollon..
Krka is testing Antonio Zizic (207-C/F-86) ex Lugano Tigers.
Ivan Simunic (203-F-86, agency: Interperformances) of Elektra Esotech had arthroscopic surgery on his left and is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks.
Jure Erzen of TCG Mercator (203-F/C-75) had surgery on thumb amd will be sidelinedat least one month.
Smiljan Pavic (210-F/C-80, agency: VTBM/SRBM) parted ways with AEK Atehns. He averaged 8,4 minutes, 2,4 points (2P 8-13, FT 1-2), 1,0 rebounds, 0,1 steals and 0,7 turnorvers in 7 games of HEBA Championship OPAP.
Akropol Basket have been on the upswing in the latter part of the season. This success is thanks much to the changes that were made, such as bringing in point guard Torey Thomas (180-G-85, college: Holy Cross) who is having a monster season averaging 25pts, 8,5reb, 7,8 ass and 3,2 stl. He is leading the league in the latter two categories and second in the league in scoring. Also with big man Blerim Mazreku (206-F/C-81, agency: Interperformances) who has found his home with Akropol averaging 19,5pts, 6,5 reb.
These two, together with Gerald Riley (198-F-81, agency: LimeLight, college: Georgetown) have created a fearsome three that have the rest of the league taking notice of them again. As well as new Head Coach Ali Ghanim who has lead the team to 7 wins in 11 tries after he took over.
Even with the success they have had some setbacks. Akropol has been fined and will have to play against defending champions Plannja without a crowd. After incidents of fans throwing items on the court, the league has punished the club by fining them 10.000 Sek as well as not allowing a crowd at the game this Friday. Hopefully this will teach the individuals that are responsible for the incidents that they are not helping their team out by disrupting the game as well as risking injury to the players when they throw things onto the court.
BBC Nyon signed Belgian gaurd Julien Rahier (193-G-83, agency: LBM Management) for the rest of the season after his try-out with the team .
In the meanwhile the try-out period of Steve Payne (202-F-72, agency: Interperformances, college: Ball St.) and Charlie Mandic (200-F-73, agency: Interperformances) who are also in Nyon, has been extended until July 16th.
Alexandre Pidoux (185-G-82) left the team to focus on his studies and because he moves to Australia until the end of the season.
He averaged 3,8 ppg , 0,7 rpg and 1,3 apg in 15 games for Nyon.
Gino Martinez also decided not to keep Julien Pirlot (198-F-81, agency: LBM Management), another Belgian who played in one game for Nyon (6 pts , 1 assist).
Meyrin waived Kenneth Saunders (198-F-82, college: Ft.Valley St.) due to his poor performance on the court.He posted 10,9 ppg , 3,4 rpg and 1,9 apg for Meyrin during the season.
New signing is Albert Myles (198-G-75, college: W.Texas A&M) who transfers from Spain (Badajoz, LEB Bronze) to Meyrin.
Juozas Ramanauskas (208-C-85) convinced Sion-Herens' staff and is signed until the end of the season.
Brian Mason (191-G/F-84, college: S.Carolina St.) , who came in to subsitute Maurice Latham who is injured, did not see his contract extended.In nine games, he contributed with 9,4 ppg , 4,0 rpg and 1,0 apg.
To replace Mason ,the staff decided to sign Derrick Lang (194-G-80, college: Incarnate World) who played in Brazil before.
Italian-Paraguayan Bruno Zanotti (197-F-82, college: Merrimack) also signed with the team previously.
Brazilian-Italian Leandro Rossini Binotto (188-G-78, agency: Interperformances) returned to Brazil due to personal reasons, he replaced earlier in the season Rasheed Quadri (191-G-80, college: La Salle) who left the team also due to personal reasons.
The club signed Warner Nattiel (184-G-82) who comes from BBC Monthey ( 3,1 ppg , 0,3 rpg , 0,7apg) while Patrick Zwahlen (195-G/F-82, college: Cleveland St. CC) transfers to BBC Monthey (3,4 ppg , 1,6rpg , 0,5apg).
Also gone is Serge Tindom (187-F-81) , who joins Martigny-Rhone Basket in the LNB. His number in Sion were 0,3 ppg, 0,7 rpg and 0,2 apg in six games played.
American Kenny Whitehead (208-C-80, college: JMU) is going to Geneva to play for the Devils. He started the season in Germany with Paderborn where he played in two games.
Whitehead replaces George Byrd (203-C-75, college: Va Commonwealth) who didn't satisfy the staff. Byrd recorded 3 ppg and 3,7 rpg in three games with the Devils.
Also new in Geneva is German Matthias Kautzor-Schroder (195-G-75, college: Wisc.-Parkside) who arrives from Meyrin where he posted 6,4 ppg 3,0 rpg and 1,2 apg.
Youngster Carlos Torres (178-G-90) is getting his chance in the pro-team as well.
Vevey Riviera Basket decided to add Bin Tabu-Eboma (183-G-82) to the roster. The guard replaces the released American Von Damien Green (178-G-80, college: Manhattan).The native of the Dem.Rep. of Congo played lastly for ASC Mainz in Germany.
Basket-Club Boncourt had to sign a player due to Jerod Adler (206-F-82, college: Indiana St.)'s injury and chose Zack Anderson (211-F/C-78, agency: 011 Sports, college: Hawaii-Pacific) who comes from Jordan where he played for Al-Wihdat.
Neuchatel announced that Herb Johnson is joining the staff as an assistant-coach after leaving Sion-Herens where he held the same position.
STV Luzern Basket signs import Darius Howard (192-G-83, college: SW Assemblies of God) until the reminder of the season. He arrives from Germany where he averaged 16,7 ppg for Capoen Duesseldorf.
The same team aligned young guard Predrag Racic (177-G- 89), Ajdin Orucevic (185-G-88) and Michael End (190-G-88) from the junior-team into the seniors.
Avdo Coric (193-F/C-79) won't be available for the rest of the season after sustaining a knee injury. He posted 4,8 ppg , 2,2 rpg and 0,8 apg in six games for Luzern.
Yann Debonneville (185-G-85) left Bernex Onex Basket for personal reasons.
He averaged 2,3 ppg and 1 rpg in four matches for Bernex.
Bernex signed Swiss-Armenian guard Sevag Keucheyan (178-G-78, agency: HM Sports Agency) who played lastly for MTV Stuttgart in Germany.
Also new in the team is Mikael Maruotto (191-F-91) who comes from the own junior-team to help.
Another add is Willy Youtchou (198-F-79, college: N.Colorado) who was waived by Meyrin and suits up for Bernex instead.
He averaged 2,9 ppg , 1,7 rpg and 0,2 apg for Meyrin in the LNA.
Abdoul Kachkara (184-G-90) left Vernier after four games in which he recorded 0,8 ppg for the club.
Eric Coly (195-F-68) and Antoine Borgeaud (187-G/F-88) won't be suiting up for BBC Cossonay anymore.Borgeaud is currently serving his military service and isn't available while Coly left the team to purse other options. Instead, American Chris Powell (205-F-81, college: Chaminade) arrives in Cossonay and comes from Meyrin Grand-Saconnex.
Zurich Wildcats strengthened their team with the addition of Marc Seylan (172-G-92) who was promoted from the junior-team.
Due to not having enough time to practice, Laurent De Meyer (200-F-84) left Zurich where he scored 4,7 ppg and 5,3 rpg while Sven Ivanic (197-F-90) is going to develop with the U-20 team of the club for the rest o fthe season.
Eric Johnson (188-G-86) is no longer with Pages Jaunes Pully Basket.
Swiss U-20 national Miroslav Petkovic (183-G-88) left Birstal to join BC Korac Zurich due to the limited playing time he received with the Starwings.
Also transferring to BC Korac is Peter Kona (185-G-87) who comes from city-rivals Wildcats.
Chene BC signed Namik Zahirovic (192-F-77) from Bernex Onex Basket where Namik averaged 15,3 ppg , 6,9 rpg and 2,7 apg.
1 LN Club Phoenix Basket Regensdorf signed David Castro (192-F-85) who returns from the Zuerich Wildcats, while German guard Enes Dendic (182-G-78) left the team.
In the first semi-final of the National Cup, SAV Vacallo Basket beated BBC Monthey 79 to 66.
At Half-time, the men of Rodrigo Pastore already leaded 37-35, but they posted a 12-3 in 5 minutes to easily win at final. BBC Monthey played without the guard, Nicolas Porchet who was convalescent. SAV Vacallo Basket is so, the first qualified for the final.
Stats :
SAV Vacallo Basket : Gibson 19p, Smiljanic 19, Dacevic 18, Mihajlovic 15, Raga 6, Molteni 2, Miller 0
BBC Monthey : Polyblank 21p, Jaquier 19, Schneidermann 17, Wegmann 9, Zwahlen, Blankson, Michellod, Kicara 0
Bogdan Tanjevic and his Fenerbahce Ulker has proven they quickly recovered from a dramatic loss against Turk Telekom in OPEL Turkish Cup semi final by beating Aris on the road in a packed arena on Thursday.
Thanks to a large rotation in the paint the visitors did not feel the absence of Euroleague all time top rebounder Mirsad Turkcan (206-F-76) and used the painted area well in addition to Will Solomon (187-G-78, college: Clemson)'s offensive contribution. Aris responded in the last quarter taking advantage of turnovers to equalize the score at 77 but Fenerbahce Ulker toughened up defensively and ran a 19-11 serie to seal the deal.
Will Solomon hit a game high 23 points as four of the others added double figures in scoring. On the other hand Jeremiah Massey (202-F-82, college: Kansas St.) and Bracey Wright (191-G-84, college: Indiana) both poured in 17 for the hosts.
Next week Fenerbahce Ulker will travel to Spain to face TAU who defeated Lietuvos Rytas on the road yesterday.
Aris TT Bank(88): Reyshawn Terry 16, Bracey Wright 17, Georgios Kalaitzis 3, Savvas Iliadis 2, Vladimer Boisa 3, Hanno Mottola 5, Jeremiah Massey 17, Dimitrios Tsaldaris 9, Darius Washington 16
Fenerbahce Ulker(86): James White 6, Willie Solomon 23, Omer Onan 4, Rasim Basak 0, Semih Erden 12, Demir Kaan 10, Gasper Vidmar 2, Oguz Savas 9, Tarence Kinsey 10, Omer Faruk Asik 7, Emir Preldzic 13
(21-29, 43-50, 60-70, 88-96)
Women News*****************************************************
Levoni Taranto - Gescom Viterbo 74 - 58
(21-14, 39-30, 55-43)
LEVONI TARANTO: Marianna Balleggi (188-F-74) 7 (2/5, 0/1), Corbani C. dnp, Greco M. 6 (3/8, 0/1), Bello M. (0/1, 0/2), Zimerle A. 11 (1/2, 3/7), Sauret Gillespie A. 11 (4/6, 0/1), Summerton L. 14 (6/8), Prado F. 4 (2/3), Frohlich L. 9 (2/4, 1/1), Brunson R. 12 (4/14). Coach Corno Aldo
GESCOM VITERBO: Danzi D. 2 (1/1), Santucci L. 6 (1/3, 1/1), Nicolini E. dnp, Brunelli G. , Smith B. 19 (7/11), Maslowski M. 11 (5/12, 0/1), Limoura L. dnp, Siccardi V. 11 (5/11, 0/1), Gorla L. 2 (1/1, 0/1), Crepaldi C. 7 (2/7, 1/5). Coach Agresti Claudio
Lavezzini Parma - Germano Zama Faenza 52 - 63
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LAVEZZINI PARMA: Maiorano M. 3 (1/4), Stabile S. 2 (1/3, 0/4), Paparazzo E. 2 (1/5), Zanoni I. (0/1), Battisodo V. (0/1), Rejchova M. 4 (2/4), Mahoney M. 7 (2/6, 1/3), Zanon M. 6 (0/2, 2/2), Screen J. 16 (2/5, 2/8), Sulciute E. 12 (4/6). Coach Scanzani Maurizio
GERMANO ZAMA FAENZA: Eric M. 15 (4/8, 2/8), Maria Chiara Franchini 11 (4/5, 1/5), Ramon E. 2 (1/1), David I. 9 (4/8), Casadio G. 3 (1/1), Jokic D. 13 (6/10), Bandini E. dnp, Knezevic A. 2 (1/1), Dos Santos C. 8 (3/11), Morsiani L.. Coach Rossi Paolo
Italmoka Pozzuoli - Pool Comense 93 - 88
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ITALMOKA POZZUOLI: Nunzia Paparo (165-G-77) 7 (1/3, 1/2), Cirov T. 23 (6/9, 3/3), Ferazzoli I. dnp, Franchetti M. , Minervino M. (0/1), Grima H. 14 (3/5, 2/3), Linguaglossa E. dnp , Grasso A. 16 (6/10), Andjelic N. 17 (0/1, 4/5), Dixon T. 16 (5/10, 1/2). Coach Palumbo Carlo Fulvio
POOL COMENSE: Bouderra F. 26 (8/12, 2/3), Bestagno E. dnp, Fabbri V. 6 (3/4), Slavcheva G. 14 (3/6, 2/6), Turner L. (0/1), Invernizzi M. 4 (1/2), Hall V. 19 (6/14, 1/2), Zampella A. 15 (0/1, 5/8), Tunguz B. dnp, Sarni S. 4 (2/7, 0/1). Coach Ricchini Roberto
Carispe La Spezia - Fiera di Roma Pomezia 57 - 62
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CARISPE LA SPEZIA: Bestagno M. 2 (1/1), Corradini L. , Pastore C. 1 (0/4, 0/1), Callens E. 13 (4/9, 1/2), Templari E. dnp, Newton C. 18 (6/11, 1/3), Bagnara B. 3 (0/3, 1/6), Vukovic V. 10 (2/2), Sarti R. (0/4), Willis C. 10 (4/9, 0/1). Coach Papini Giovanni
FIERA DI ROMA POMEZIA: Di Battista F. (0/1, 0/1), Servillo M. dnp, Hodges D. 13 (0/5, 3/9), Cinili S. 2 (1/1), Mendes Da Silva T. dnp, Scimitani S. (0/1), Machanguana C. 23 (7/19), Lichnerova J. 7 (2/3, 1/3), Milica Beljanski (185-F-83) 15 (3/8, 1/1), Gattini C. 2 (1/5). Coach Incecchi Sandro
Acer Priolo - Famila Wuber Schio 75 - 63
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ACER PRIOLO: Angela Gianolla (171-G-80) 20 (2/6, 3/4), Bonfiglio S. dnp, Palie S. 9 (1/1, 1/2), Milazzo O. dnp, Fabbri E. 2 (0/1), Seino T. 18 (5/7, 1/1), Sciacca B. 6 (0/3, 2/3), Pascalau F. 8 (2/8), Meneghel R. 4 (1/3), Phillips T. 8 (3/7). Coach Coppa Santino
FAMILA WUBER SCHIO: Consolini C. dnp, Moro E. (0/2, 0/2), Butler D. 9 (3/4, 1/3), Donaphin B. 10 (4/8), Tassara S. (0/1), Masciadri R. 12 (2/3, 2/4), Ngoyisa B. 17 (7/11, 0/1), Ress K. 2 (0/2), Ciampoli F. (0/1, 0/1), Macchi L. 13 (2/8, 1/4). Coach Orlando Sandro
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Alternate structural system of incorporating flat bed rail wagons as low volume road bridge decks
Palliyaguru, Nishantha, Jamtsho, Lungten, Dhanasekar, Manicka, & Bayissa, Wirtu (2010) Alternate structural system of incorporating flat bed rail wagons as low volume road bridge decks. In Proceedings of The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010, Engineers Australia, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, pp. 1-6.
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The stimulus for this project rose from the need to find an alternative solution to aging superstructures of road-bridge in low volume roads (LVR). The solution investigated, designed and consequently plans to construct, involved replacing an aging super-structure of a 10m span bridge with Flat-Bed Rail Wagon (FBRW). The main focus of this paper is to present alternate structural system for the design of the FBRW as road bridge deck conforming to AS5100. The structural adequacy of the primary members of the FBRW was first validated using full scale experimental investigation to AS5100 serviceability and ultimate limit state loading. The bare FBRW was further developed to include a running surface. Two options were evaluated during the design phase, namely timber and reinforced concrete. First option, which is presented here, involved strengthening of the FBRW using numerous steel sections and overlaying the bridge deck with timber planks. The idea of this approach was to use all the primary and secondary members of the FBRW in load sharing and to provide additional members where weaknesses in the original members arose. The second option, which was the preferred option for construction, involved use of primary members only with an overlaying reinforced concrete slab deck. This option minimised the risk associated with any uncertainty of secondary members to its structural adequacy. The paper will report selected results of the experiment as well as the design phases of option one with conclusions highlighting the viability of option 1 and its limitations.
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Budwey's will keep doors open in NT and Newfane
It looks like Budwey's Markets could live to see its 100th birthday.
After announcing in October that he would sell the namesake stores that his grandmother founded in 1922, Frank Budwey said he just can't bear to retire and will keep his North Tonawanda and Newfane stores after all.
"I had a good deal on the table, but my heart wasn't in it to walk away," Budwey said. "I just couldn't do it."
Though Budwey had already sold the Kenmore Avenue Budwey's location to Dash's Markets and had negotiated to sell the remaining two stores to his supplier, Olean Wholesale Grocery Co-Op, in the end, he just couldn't pull the trigger.
The outpouring of sentiment from his large and loyal customer base tugged at him, as did the idea that he couldn't guarantee jobs for some of his more than 200 employees.
"I was born and raised in North Tonawanda, and I want to see the neighborhood store hang around, so the best way to do it was for me to stay here and keep it going," Budwey said.
With the Kenmore store off his plate, Budwey said, he can focus more time and energy on the other two stores without being stretched too thin.
Olean Wholesale could not be reached to comment, but Bud- wey said it has expressed its delight that Budwey's is staying and that it doesn't have to search for another independent operator to take over the two stores.
It's not the first time Budwey has tried – and failed – to leave the grocery business he says is in his blood.
In 1995, he sold Budwey's Bells to Jubilee in order to pursue real estate.
He developed the plaza on Division Street that surrounds the North Tonawanda Budwey's store and opened a laundromat, but it wasn't the same.
"I was missing the food business," he said.
In May 2000, he bought his store back from Jubilee. He stayed with Jubilee for two years before joining Olean Wholesale.
As the end drew near, Budwey said, he started to have similar misgivings about leaving the business.
"It seemed like I would have a big void in my life," Budwey said. "And I figured I can still spend time with my grandchildren because I'm the boss and I can sneak out whenever I want."
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Bellmar grad racked up lasting memories at NBV bowling alleys & pool hall
There was a time when nearly every town in this Mid-Mon Valley had at least one.
They were known by different names – pool hall, pool room, billiards parlor – but all held an aura of mystique and adventure for young boys eager to become young men.
For John I. Orrison, a 1963 graduate of Bellmar High School now living in Gainesville, Ga., that rite of passage came as it did to so many others at the Belle Vernon Bowling Alleys owned and operated for 22 years by Andrew "Red" Youshock of Monessen at 527 Broad Ave., North Belle Vernon.
Orrison, 68, recounts his introduction to Red's establishment as part of a well-written collection of journeys to Yesteryear titled, "Growing Up Bellmar: Reminiscences of My Youth."
"The entrance to Red's was one doorway in an alley behind Broad Avenue," Orrison wrote.
"From the Broad Avenue side of the building, it was an innocuous, harmless-looking portal that had a simple sign proclaiming 'Bowling & Billiards.'
"Upon entering the building, patrons descended a flight of stairs that opened to a large area with pool tables behind a drapery wall. Next to the pool tables area were bowling alleys.
"Red sat behind a counter where he could watch the pool tables and rent out shoes to the bowlers.
"He maintained the demeanor of a courtroom bailiff, mostly, I suppose, to keep the pool shooters in line.
"That popular movie, 'The Hustler,' had not yet been made and the upscale yuppie pool rooms with pastel-colored tables from Brunswick were a generation in the future."
Orrison recalled that the bowling alleys were used mostly at night by teams of rubber-band duckpin bowlers, "mostly moms and dads and those competing in various leagues there."
"The pool tables were most heavily used in the afternoons, after school let out," he said.
"The pool shooters were the 'greasers,' who scowled most of the time and had a pack of cigarettes rolled up in their shirt sleeves.
"When the denizens of the pool hall wanted to smoke, Red made them go outside in the alley so as not to get cigarette burns on his tables.
"During pool table periods, the alley was a formidable place for a non-greaser to wander. Although it provided a good shortcut from my house to Standard Pharmacy and The Verdi Theatre, I seldom walked that way at those times."
Despite the fact that he knew "these were not the role models I would be allowed to emulate," Orrison said, "the thrill and mystery of the forbidden had its allure."
"My dad (John Irvin Orrison) often told me that, in college, he was a pretty good pool shot," Orrison said. "I used this knowledge to try to get him to take me to the pool hall to teach me how to shoot pool. The truth was that, although I liked opportunities to do things with Dad, I really wanted to see what went on in there, sort of like the popular song of the time, 'Green Door.'
"He put me off for many years, until one day when I was about 14 years old and he said it was time to teach me how to shoot pool."
Those instructions came on a busy Saturday afternoon after Orrison and his father had taken groceries home from Dolfi's Market.
"We entered through the Bowling & Billiards portal and descended into Red's domain," Orrison recalled. "Dad looked around, inspected the tables and asked Red if he had an ivory cue ball. Red said he didn't, so Dad and I went to the table he had selected and he began my lessons.
"There were only a few of the regular pool crews in there that day. They eyed us curiously but went about their own games.
"After Dad instructed me on the basics, we started playing. We did not play 9-Ball or 8-Ball like the other shooters were doing. We played 'call pool,' a game in which you have to call each shot including banks and combinations with other balls or the shot doesn't count."
The game was scored, Orrison said, on a series of sliding beads on wires hanging over the tables. The object was to sink 100 balls before your opponent.
"You shot until you missed, then the other person got a turn until he missed," Orrison said.
"One of the trickiest parts of the game was when you had to re-rack because you had shot all but one of the balls on the table. Being able to sink the ball and impart enough 'English' (spin) on the cue ball to get it to break up the racked-up balls for subsequent shots was what separated the novice from the pro."
Orrison said he got "maybe three shots" that first day, "none of which resulted in my getting any of the balls into the pocket."
A week or so later, the father-son team returned to Red's for a second round of lessons.
"When we walked in, and from that day on, when Dad went up to Red to rent the table, Red handed my Dad a small wooden box. Inside the box, wrapped in velvet, was an ivory cue ball.
"Red explained that he didn't often give it out because most of the patrons would eventually bounce a cue ball off the table onto the concrete floor and damage it.
"I guess watching Dad shoot that first day convinced Red that my father wasn't likely to bounce the cue ball, nor was he going to allow me to do anything that would launch the ball off the table."
Throughout his high school years, Orrison said, he and his father would visit Red's once every three or four weeks.
"I never got nearly as good at pool as my dad, but I also never got tired of spending the time with him," Orrison said.
"As an added benefit, the alley door at Red's was not nearly as forbidding once I had been inside and was a regular at the pool hall. But I never had any desire to go there without my dad."
The site that housed Red Youshock's bowling alleys and pool room is now home to Primerica, a national firm that offers financial consulting and analysis services.
Andrew "Red" Youshock was only 64 when he died on Nov. 25, 1971.
His wife, Anna Latkanich Youshock, who helped run the family business, died on Sept. 28, 1982, at age 75. Anna Youshock also worked for U.S. Steel Corp. for 32 years.
Vance Bunardzya of Rostraver Township, who also grew up in Belle Vernon, recalled that Red's bowling alleys were "predominantly duckpin lanes."
But there also were tenpin facilities available.
"There were no automatic pinsetters, it was all done by human hands," Bunardzya said. "There were many times when I, or others who spent time there, would fill in as pinsetters if one of the regulars didn't show."
Fred Fundy of North Belle Vernon offered a reminder that Red's brother, Dave Youshock, ran a popular dairy bar for several years on Broad Avenue where the entrance to St. Sebastian School is now located across the alley from Fox's Pizza Den.
John I. Orrison is now semi-retired and serves as principal consultant with Draper & Associates' Construction Services Division in Atlanta, Ga.
He has more than 45 years of experience in a successful career of construction, contracts and consulting, including a long tenure as managing principal and senior vice president of the firm.
Ron Paglia is a freelance writer for Trib Total Media.


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The Power of Participation
By Joyce O'Connor Davidson
Worcester native J.D. Power III '53, founder of one of the most prestigious marketing information firms in the world—J.D. Power and Associates—values the quality of his Holy Cross education, and demonstrates his satisfaction by giving to the College. He hopes other alumni will do the same, and, to that end, Power has created a challenge.
He would like to see 55 percent of alumni participate in giving this year to Holy Cross, moving the College closer to the top participation rates at the best liberal arts colleges in the country. Amherst College boasted 61 percent in 2007, and Williams College 63 percent. If alumni achieve 55 percent participation in 2008, Power will give Holy Cross $500,000 to establish paid internships for Holy Cross students to get business experience in Worcester-area organizations.
It is a winning situation all around. If alumni give, the College benefits on multiple fronts, not the least of which would be securing the J.D. Power Internships. Holy Cross student interns will benefit; host organizations will benefit; populations served by the organizations will benefit; the Worcester community will profit; and the College will benefit by increased engagement in local businesses and nonprofit organizations. All it takes is: 55 percent of alumni making a gift of any size to the College by June 30.
J.D. Power has spent his professional life gauging customer satisfaction and product quality, and he sees giving back as a way that alumni can express satisfaction with their educational experience.
Power was born and raised in Worcester—and comes from a long tradition of Holy Cross graduates. He and his father were both "day hops," and his brother, John, was a member of the Class of 1969. Though Power's family fared better than some during the Depression—his father was a teacher for more than 40 years at the boys' trade high school—the family could not afford for him to live on campus.
"It was a different life in those days, coming out of the Depression," he says. "I learned about the need for living within your means and sharing with people less fortunate. I was brought up in that background."
This is why, last year, he created The Power Family Scholarship—to make the full educational experience available to qualified Worcester students who might not otherwise get the opportunity.
Following graduation from Holy Cross, Power served four years on a Coast Guard icebreaker in the Arctic and Antarctic—"my dorm experience," he says—before earning an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. From there, he joined the Ford Motor Company as an analyst and, later, worked in other positions within the auto and farm equipment businesses, before starting his own market research firm.
Each year, J.D. Power and Associates surveys millions of consumers worldwide. The statistical information gathered is used to judge the quality of a variety of products across many industries, and to gauge customer satisfaction. Through the firm's research and the publicity of its results, J.D. Power and Associates serves as a vehicle for positive change. "Providing good information to society is more important than ever, now that we're living in the 'information age,'" Power notes.
Power says that the public trusted J.D. Power and Associates, even as it grew. That is because the company created "a path of values" that highlighted integrity, independence and impact. When he began working in the automobile industry, Power explains, management was top-down. By the time the information from consumers got back to the top management, it had been massaged. As an independent research group, J.D. Power and Associates has been able to "say it like it is." He believes that the company had a positive impact on the business environment because it gave voice to the needs of the consumer.
"We provided the voice of the customer," Power says. "We used the press to spread our word, to get the message from the customer back up to top management—and we had to be independently funded to do that."
J. D. Power and Associates was a family business right from the start and remained such even after it grew. The business started as a family effort in the living room. Susan Power Curtin '93 remembers, as a 7-or-8-year-old, sitting with her siblings and her mother, stuffing customer surveys into envelopes. She recalls taping quarters to each survey as an incentive to encourage people to fill out the surveys. Curtin also remembers her father entering the house at night carrying stacks of data to compile.
"I feel fortunate to have been in the trenches," she says—"to have watched my parents' sacrifice and hard work—and now to see their success pay off." Curtin adds that the recent sale of the company to the McGraw-Hill Companies has been wonderful, but a personal "loss" at the same time, because it was such a family effort.
Though the company has been sold, the Powers continue to work together on a new enterprise, a family foundation called The Kenrose Kitchen Table Foundation. Curtin hopes her father can now enjoy the impact of some of his hard work, as he gives resources back to the institutions, people and places that have mattered to him. Holy Cross and Worcester are important to Power, and, coming from a long line of educators, he values education dearly. Answer his call to endorse Holy Cross by giving and, in this way, help current and future students and the local community experience the benefit.
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> What SPSS still maintains over Stata is better ANOVA routines,
> particularly Repeated-Measures fixed-factor designs. Stata treats RM
> designs a bit strangely, I believe because it seems to "wrap" ANOVA code
> around Regression methods. It's non-intuitive and can provide results
> that aren't typical of RM ANOVA (consider how it uses full-n for
> fixed-factor RM ANOVA without listwise elimination of subjects who are
> missing an observation). I would much prefer to see Stata invest in
> re-working their ANOVA code and analyses so that it is more consistant
> with SAS or SPSS methodologies, offers more in terms of assumption
> testing (ex. Sphericity tests), and is more intuitive.
Michael Mitchell pointed this out in his head to head to head comparison of Stata, SPSS, and SAS some years ago in a report posted at ATS UCLA.
I don't know if this is true anymore with version 11.1 of xtmixed and the margins functionality. This book shows use of xtmixed in designed experiments:
BTW, you can test sphericity in Stata directly with the mvtest command or by asking for the univariate rm-anova corrections when you use the "repeated(varlist)" option to anova.
Doesn't SPSS wrap GLM for its RM-ANOVA routines?
Can you post an example of what you are talking about, re listwise elimination? I don't have SPSS.
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text: Russian director Sergei Dvortsevoy's mesmerizing documentary shorts are rooted in the primitive beginnings of the form, when American explorer Robert Flaherty first turned his camera on the Eskimos in 1922's Nanook Of The North. Like Flaherty, Dvortsevoy is held rapt by barren, forbidding landscapesin his case, the dusty steppes of remote Kazakhstanand is primarily an ethnographer, more interested in behavior than psychology. Through long takes and stark, artfully composed tableaux, Highway and Paradise gather impressions of nomadic life without shoehorning them into a conventional narrative framework. Along the 2,000-mile stretch of dirt road leading to Uzbekistan, the lone time marker in Highway is a downed eagle, slowly recovering under the care of the Tadjibajevs, a traveling family circus. Dvortsevoy shows a couple of their routines, performed for a smattering of impoverished villagers: One involves the eldest son holding a 70-pound weight by his teeth while his father whacks it with a sledgehammer, while the other has a 3-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl walking on a pile of broken glass. But the director is more interested in those long stretches when the troupe crams into a stubborn, hand-cranked bus and travels for countless bumpy miles with no other goals than a wealthier audience. Despite the harsh conditions, Dvortsevoy captures a feeling of intimacy and warmth in close quarters, defined at one point by an affecting mother's lullaby that sets the entire family at ease. The 25-minute Paradise is less concerned with people than with documenting behavior in general, drawing basic parallels between wild animals and the humans who shepherd them through the steppe. To cite a typical example, Dvortsevoy juxtaposes a funny scene in which a cow gets its head stuck in a milk jug with the strikingly similar image of a baby boy devouring a bowl of sour cream face first. But Paradise spends much of the time hammering home the irony in its title, amping up the sounds of swirling winds, perpetually buzzing flies, and the agonizing screams of a camel getting its nose pierced with a pocket knife. As with Highway, Dvortsevoy is compelled by natural beauty but not by judgment, and his willingness to let the living world unfold for the camera produces moments of transcendent beauty.


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White Bison, Inc., is an American Indian/Alaska Native non-profit charitable organization operating under the provisions of 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Through White Bison, it's Founder and President Don Coyhis, Mohican Nation, has offered healing resources to Native America since 1988. White Bison offers sobriety, recovery, addictions prevention, and wellness/Wellbriety learning resources to the Native American/Alaska Native community nationwide. Many non-Native people also use White Bison's healing resource products, attend its learning circles, and volunteer their services. White Bison is a NAADAC approved provider (#64009) and a Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Member #11364.
We are a Native American operated 501(c)3 nonprofit company dedicated to creating and sustaining a grassroots Wellbriety Movement that provides culturally based healing to the next seven generations of Indigenous People.
White Bison is a proud facilitator of the Wellbriety Movement. Wellbriety means to be sober and well. Wellbriety teaches that we must find sobriety from addictions to alcohol and other drugs and recover from the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol on individuals, families and whole communities. The "Well" part of Wellbriety is the inspiration to go on beyond sobriety and recovery, committing to a life of wellness and healing everyday.
Don Coyhis, Mohican Nation, is the President and Founder of White Bison, Inc., an American Indian non-profit organization, located in Colorado Springs, CO. Don originally set out to raise awareness and treat alcoholism among Indian youth on the reservations. After studying the underlying causes of alcoholism, White Bison's mission expanded to include drug addiction, dysfunctional families and relationships, as well as the American Indian suicide rate. From this, the Wellbriety Movement was born. The teachings of Wellbriety go beyond being sober to include thriving in the community and being balanced emotionally, mentally, physical and spiritually.
Over the past 26 years, Don has developed a series of culturally-based programs to address recovery and treatment, youth prevention and treatment, programs for healthy families, and healing from unresolved grief and traumatic loss due to intergenerational trauma. These programs are designed help with all facets of family healing and have been implemented throughout the United States and Canada.
Don Coyhis was the 2009 winner of the Purpose Prize Award, which was created in 2005 by Encore.org, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies, to showcase the value of experience and disprove outdated notions that innovation is the sole province of the young. It's for those with the drive to make change and the experience to know how to do it.
Don's life experiences have enabled him to author several books addressing recovery, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and substance abuse for adults, youth and families. He has been called upon to provide technical assistance by national policy organizations such as the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), as well as other national recovery organizations to develop prevention and recovery programs for Native American/Alaska Native communities. Don has dedicated his life to raising awareness about all issues surrounding alcohol and drug abuse, how it impacts the family system, and most importantly how families and communities can heal from these issues.
J.Carlos Rivera is the Executive Director at White Bison, Inc. located in Colorado Springs, CO. Carlos is an enrolled tribal member with the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians and is also of Mexican descent. He is originally from Northern Ca. but currently resides in Sioux Falls, SD with his family.
Carlos, CADC-II, received his degree in Chemical Dependency Studies at the American River College. He served as a substance abuse treatment provider for 10-years at the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc. providing services to adult men and women on parole, juvenile offenders and other referrals from the Department of Corrections. He continues to make a difference in Native Tribal communities serving as the Executive Director for White Bison, Inc. In his role he oversees daily operations and is also passionate about developing new curriculum to better meet the needs of Native American/Alaska Native communities. Carlos has also been an active committee member for the Juvenile Justice & Delinquency State Committee for California, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown.
Carlos has faced many adversities in his life that have ultimately guided him to build resiliency, discipline and a sense of direction in his life. Carlos grew up without a father or mother figure and became a ward of the court at age 13, resulting in him spending most of his adolescent years in treatment programs, group homes and Youth Authorities. Through the process of treatment and recovery Carlos found a greater purpose in life which inspired and motivated him to establish a healthy foundation for his family.
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Ozzie Williamson, M.A. (Blackfeet) Ozzie has been with us since the beginning. Ozzie taught me to look forward. When this first started, I had doubts about what I was going to do, so I went to see Ozzie, and when I left there I never looked back. One of the stories that Ozzie tells is this: "When I walked down the trail with my grandmother, she always wore moccasins with a soft sole. If there happened to be a little stick on the trail, she would stop and kick it off the trail. One day I said, "Grandma, why do you always do that, why do you always stop and kick those things off the trail?" She said, "It just makes it easier for somebody else to come by." I never realized until she was long gone years later that the things she tried to tell me were very similar to the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. What I heard in AA was similar to some of her teachings."
Della Bad Wound Oglala Lakota - Employed in the human services field for 50 years working with women, children, youth and elderly. Her employment included the founding of Western South Dakota Senior Services in western South Dakota as the program director for 17 Nutrition sites for the elders. Denver Indian Health & Family Services, Winyan Wasaka-Women's Alcohol Prevention Program, Seventh Generation Project, University of Denver; Elderhealth Program with Four World's Development, Inc. in Lethbridge, Canada; and as a Native Sister with the Native American Cancer Research Project. She has been working with the documentation and preservation of the Lakota Language with the University of Colorado in Boulder for the past 6 years.Della has one son, Michael and his significant other, one younger sister, one younger brother, many nieces and nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her extended family includes hunka sisters, hunka children and grandchildren. Hunka-making of a relative-adopted.
Dr. Henrietta Mann (N. Cheyenne) has been an integral part of the development of the Wellbriety family programs (Families of Tradition, Mothers of Tradition, Fathers of Tradition, Sons of Tradition and Daughters of Tradition). Her sharing of teachings of the Cycle of Life provided the framework for these trainings. After years as a professor and an advocate for Native sovereignty and wellness, Dr. Henrietta came out of retirement to start a the Cheyenne / Arapaho tribal community college. She does the ceremonies and songs. She also reminds us what we stand for: "We do not need to remain locked into those areas where we feel a great deal of anger and hostility to the dominant population because as White Bison says, we have to forgive the unforgivable. There are many that have and there are many who are yet to do that. Only when we forgive the unforgivable can we really say we are healing, that we have addressed that one aspect of our life. Saying we can forgive, now we can heal."
Marlin Farley is from the White Earth Reservation in northwest Minnesota. He has over 27 years of experience in working in the fields of adolescent treatment of emotional/behavioral disorders, family based social work, chemical dependency, restorative justice practices, and as a trainer/consultant in the wellness field. He is the president of Black Stone Consulting. Marlin is also a film producer/director and is the principal owner of Painted Sky Productions. Marlin is a board member and Master Trainer for White Bison Inc. and is a leader in the national Wellbriety Movement.
Sparrow Goudey (Tsalagi/Cherokee/Wyandot) is the founder of Waya Nv-No-Hi (Wolf Road) Healing the Circle Workshops. With 25 years of continued sobriety, she has developed and conducts workshops for both Native and non-Native communities that assist adults and adolescents, affected by drugs, alcohol, eating disorders and mental illness by incorporating curriculum, traditional arts and spirituality as tools for change, growth and recovery. Sparrow is also a trainer for White Bison and the Wellbriety Training Institute. She facilitates Mending Broken Hearts, Medicine Wheel & 12 Steps, Mothers of Tradition, Daughters of Tradition and Wellbriety Celebrating Families curriculums and is devoted to helping individuals and communities that suffer from addiction and trauma.
Darryl Lickers a member of the Turtle Clan is originally from the Six Nations of the Grand River Mohawk Territory in southwestern Ontario Canada. He is of Tuscarora descent, and presently makes his home in Blackfalds, Alberta with his wife Karen. Darryl has recently retired from service with the Canadian Federal Government after 40+ years of service, both with the military (25 years) and his recent position with Corrections Canada as an Aboriginal Correctional Program Officer (23 years). On December 1st, 2015, Darryl completed his career at Pê Sâkâstêw Centre Healing Lodge in Mâskwâcîs, Alberta where he delivered substance abuse, family violence, violence prevention (In Search of Your Warrior) programs as well as White Bison programs Medicine Wheel & 12 Steps, Fathers of Tradition and Mending Broken Hearts. Darryl believes he is fulfilling his purpose in life as a helper by using his experiences and knowledge to help Native people heal from the effects of addiction and other abuses. Darryl has been a friend of Bill W. for the past 40 years (May 11, 1976). We are honoured to have Darryl as one of our Canadian trainers.
Sharyl WhiteHawk is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibway Indians of Northwest Wisconsin, and is the mother of ten children and grandmother of twenty six and counting. She has been in recovery from alcoholism for the past 33 years and is a certified chemical dependency counselor and prevention specialist. She also is a survivor of, childhood and adult, physical and sexual violence and has experience working in the fields of domestic and sexual violence advocacy. She has devoted her life to using her experience and knowledge to help other Native People to heal from the devastating effects of addiction and family and sexual violence. Sharyl facilitates Mothers of Tradition, Mending Broken Hearts, Medicine Wheel 12 Steps, and Families of Tradition and is Founder and Executive director of Women of Wellbriety International.
Hunter Genia, LMSW is a Grand River Band Odawa and Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River Band OJibway who has been working in the Behavioral Health field for over 25 consecutive years. His experience has ranged from prevention, mental health, and substance abuse working with children, youth, families, and communities and his roles have varied from direct social work to administration. He has also enjoys being a resource for federal agencies such as SAMHSA and IHS. Hunter enjoys meeting and working with people who are looking to make positive change in their lives and communities. Hunter is most proud to be the dad of three sons Anthony, Joseph, and Hunter.
Andrea Alexander, is Seminole/Creek, a member of the Seminole nation of Oklahoma. She has provided training and consulted with tribal communities, state and private prisons, treatment centers, governmental agencies, and the recovery community at large. She is skilled in individual, group and family counseling specifically focusing on behavior related to substance use and/or criminal behavior, case management, treatment and discharge planning, assessment, liaison work with court systems. She is an experienced facilitator in Relapse Prevention, Early Recovery; both matrix models of treatment. Experience also includes inpatient treatment to sober living. She assisted in working with the implementation and operation of the Muscogee Creek Nation Reintegration Program for offender reentry, the first native American tribal reentry program, also, initiative coordinator at Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative. From this, she gained experience with family, juvenile, adult and mental health special courts programs. She is an experienced Wellbriety Circles of Recovery program facilitator with White Bison, Inc. programs in a variety of settings She has a Bachelor of Arts-Sociology with a Substance Abuse Studies option-University of Central Oklahoma and an Associate in Applied Science-Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counseling-Oklahoma State University-OKC.
TANYA SCHUR, MA, is a Blackfeet-Métis mother of two grown children. She follows a cultural way of life and the traditional teachings of the medicine wheel under the guidance of elders from Blackfoot and Cree Nations. She is committed to Urban Indigenous Community Development and the empowerment of Indigenous people. She is a Health Rhythms ™ facilitator, Leadership on the Medicine Wheel facilitator, Emotional Intelligence and Diversity trainer, certified Mediator with Aiskapimohkiihs (Siksika Justice) and facilitates Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps at the Friendship Centre in Red Deer. She holds a MA in Leadership Studies from the Royal Roads University, Victoria. Her focus of research explored building cohesive teams from diverse work groups, transformational change, strategic planning, leadership development and organization design. Her work in program design has included facilitating Urban Aboriginal Pre-Employment Programs for the Red Deer Aboriginal Employment Services, creation of the Aboriginal Youth Leadership Certification and implementation of the Urban Aboriginal Voices Society urban governance model. Since completing the The Canadian Women's Foundation Leadership Institute Tanya has turned her energy to designing the Community Development strategy for Asooahum Crossing Indigenous Cultural neighbourhood in Red Deer. Tanya is currently serving as the Director of Asooahum Crossing at the Red Deer Native Friendship Centre.
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Today I was doing a little Internet perusing for some news, and I came across this article. For those of you who don't have time to go read it (or if the link doesn't work for any reason), allow me to give you the basic summary.
Apparently there is new airport security made up of people who are trained to watch faces and body language for "signs of bad intentions." It could be any of the security officials, as there is nothing that designates them from the rest of the security staff. Currently these new agents are in about a dozen airports nationwide, and plans call to have 500 of these agents in airports by the end of 2008. If they deem that a person seems "suspicious" while they assist them through their check-in or through the security x-rays or maybe even help them with their bags, they will turn them over to law enforcement officials for further questioning.
And get this... they have a name: Behavior Detection Officers. Is it just me or is anyone reminded of a variety of things from Orwell's 1984 or maybe even Huxley's Brave New World? Are we really getting to the point that we are being watched THIS closely now?
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for our nation taking certain measures to protect the people. I tend to be a fairly safe and cautious person myself. I don't walk around deserted streets alone at night. I don't leave valuables in plain sight in my car. I lock my doors. But I also don't walk around paranoid that something could happen to me.
I guess I'm just wondering where the line is in a post-9/11 world. It's hard to make a criticism of something that is being put into place for our safety. I get that. I fully understand the reasons. I agree that we should be doing things to protect ourselves. However, I think there HAS to be a line.
I found a few more articles on the matter that I won't bore you with, but the jist of one of them was pointing out how they'll look for "negative" facial features. I can think of plenty of reasons why people would be wandering around the airport with these so-called negative facial features. Maybe they're afraid to fly. Maybe they just had a fight with a significant other. Maybe they're running late. Maybe they're irritated because the airport is always running late. The list goes on...
It just seems to me that yes, maybe they can catch a few suspicious characters this way... but to what cost to the rest of us? How many innocent people are going to be held up more at the airport because they're not coming across has happy and peaceful? I'm torn in some ways... I don't mind being held up a bit if it means my life is being saved, but I also think it's possible to take it too far.
Maybe I'm way off base. Maybe I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Maybe Behavior Detection Officers are the way to go to keep our airports as safe as possible. But even if all those things are true, I still believe that it's possible for all of this to get taken too far. At some point, someone's got to draw a line between a reasonable concern for the safety of our nation and an unreasonable state of paranoia. Feel free to agree or disagree... either viewpoint is welcomed. :)


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The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden . . . (Matthew 13:44)
McCoy explores several parables from Matthew 13 in this mixed-media assemblage. Following Christ's example by placing materials from everyday life into his work, the artist leads us through the parables of the sower, weeds, mustard seed, yeast, hidden treasure, pearl and net. Even the use of a standard tool from Jesus' trade hints at the challenge from those in his hometown: "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Isn't this the carpenter's son?" Together, the objects in this work point beyond Jesus' use of the ordinary to his divine calling to communicate the deeper truths of the Kingdom.


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In order to improve the overall survival benefit observed with AZA in higher risk MDS, its combination with other active drugs in MDS must be tested.
Among drugs that have demonstrated to be active as a single agent in MDS and have preclinical potential additive or synergistic activity with AZA are Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors including Valproic acid, Lenalidomide and idarubicin. Phase I studies have already been conducted or are being conducted combining those agents to demethylating agents, showing a low toxicity profile and significant responses in high risk MDS. In this phase II randomized trial, we want to identify the most promising combination of Azacitidine and another drug (among 3 drugs: Valproic acid, Lenalidomide and Idarubicin) in higher risk MDS, by comparison to Azacitidine alone. Of note, based on efficacy and toxicity, one or several combinations may be stopped, and others, previously tested in phase I trials, included after protocol amendment.
|Drug: Azacitidine Drug: Azacitidine associated with Valproic acid Drug: Azacitidine associated with Lenalidomide Drug: Azacitidine associated with Idarubicine
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: No masking
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Randomized Phase II Trial Seeking the Most Promising Drug Association With Azacitidine- in Higher Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
- Remission, complete, partial or medullary after 6 cycles [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Achievement of remission, complete, partial or medullary, according to the IWG 2006 criteria39 (see section 10 below) after 6 cycles
- Stable disease with hematological improvement [ Time Frame: 3 and 6 months ]Achievement of stable disease with hematological improvement (HI), according to IWG 2006 criteria after 3 and 6 cycles
- Duration of response [ Time Frame: within 3 years ]Duration of response
- Progression to acute myeloid leukemia [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Number of adverse events [ Time Frame: 3 years ]Number of adverse events
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Azacitidine alone
Drug: Azacitidine
6 cycles of Azacitidine 75 mg/m2 subcutaneously daily for 7 days, every 4 weeks The first course will be started on day 1 regardless of the blood count. Subsequent courses will be scheduled every 4 weeks
|Experimental: Azacitidine +Valproic acid
Drug: Azacitidine associated with Valproic acid
6 cycles of Azacitidine 75 mg/m2 subcutaneously daily for 7 days, every 4 weeks Valproic Acid (Depakine-Chrono®) (VPA) will be administered concomitantly for a minimum of 6 cycles.
- In patients aged 60 years or less: VPA (25 mg/kg twice a day i.e. 50 mg/kg/d) administered orally, daily for 7 days (days 1-7)
- In patients older than 60 years: VPA (17.5 mg/kg twice a day i.e. 35 mg/Kg/d) administered orally daily for 7 days (days 1-7)
|Experimental: Azacitidine +Lenalidomide
Drug: Azacitidine associated with Lenalidomide
6 cycles of Azacitidine 75 mg/m2 subcutaneously daily for 7 days, every 4 weeks Lenalidomide (Revlimid®) will be administered once daily orally as continuous schedule started on day 1 of Azacitidine.
Patients will receive Lenalidomide 10 mg/d, during 14 days (D1 to D14)
|Experimental: Azacitidine + Idarubicine
Drug: Azacitidine associated with Idarubicine
Azacitidine (Vidaza®) will be administered similarly to group 1 exposed above. Idarubicin (Zavedos®) as the reconstituted solution, will be administered slowly by the intravenous route over 60 minutes at 10 mg/m²of body-surface area on day 8 of Azacitidine or day 10 if azacitidine was administered according to (5-2-2 regimen)
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The main objective of this phase II randomized trial is to identify, among 3 combinations of Azacitidine and another drug evaluated simultaneously, the most promising combination(s) for the treatment of higher risk MDS (IPSS Int-2 and High) compared to Azacitidine alone. The 3 tested drugs in combination with Azacitidine are: Valproic Acid, Lenalidomide and Idarubicin.
The aim of this trial is to identify, in a situation where several potentially interesting drugs tested in combination with AZA exist, the most promising combination(s) based on efficacy compared to azacitidine alone, based on a two-stage design that allows a formal efficacy comparison between the K=3 investigational treatment groups and the control group.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- age>=18 years
- Must be able to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements
- Documented diagnosis of MDS, including AREB-t according to FAB classification or CMML (with WBC < 13,000/mm3) that meets IPSS criteria for intermediate-2 or high-risk.
- Patients should be willing to use adequate contraceptive methods during all the duration of the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Treatment with AZA or Decitabine in the previous 6 months
- Previous treatment with any HDAC inhibitor (Sodium valproate, Vorinostat, depsipeptide ou NSC-630176, MS 275, LAQ-824, PXD-101, LBH589, MGCD0103, CRA024781, etc). If Sodium Valproate (Depakine®) was used for seizure, a wash-out period of at least 30 days is required and an appropriate treatment replacement should be performed.
- Ongoing treatment with corticosteroids exceeding 30mg of prednisone per day. A wash out period of at least 7 days is required.
- HIV infection
- Creatinine > 1.5 ULN
- Serum AST or ALT > 3.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum total bilirubin > 1.5 mg/dl (except for unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to Gilbert's disease or secondary to MDS).
- ≥ grade-2 neuropathy
- Previous history of Acute myeloblastic leukemia (with marrow blasts>30%)
- Previous history of allogeneic stem cell transplantation
- Contra-indication to Anthracyclines: Myocardiopathy, uncontrolled infection, serious renal or hepatic impairment; associated with yellow fever vaccine
- Known hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients of Vidaza®, of valproate, of divalproate, of valpromide, of Lenalidomide, of thalidomide, of idarubicin and/or anthracyclines
- Patients with a history of severe congestive heart failure, clinically unstable cardiac or pulmonary disease
- All hepatitis or known personal or familial severe hepatitis, particularly due to drugs
- Depression with suicidal tendency
- Use of MILLEPERTUIS, mefloquine
- No medical insurance in the French Health system
- Prior history of malignancy other than MDS (except basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma or carcinoma in situ of the cervix or breast) unless the subject has been free of disease for ≥ 3 years.
- Pregnant or lactating females
- Eligibility for allogeneic stem cell transplantation
- very altered general condition , with WHO performance status of 4, or life expectancy of less than 6 months
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01342692
|Contact: Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD
|Avicenne hospital
|Bobigny, France, 93009
|Contact: Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD 33(1)48957050 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
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|NCT01342692 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 21, 2011
|Last Updated:
|June 13, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Valproic Acid
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Leprostatic Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Enzyme Inhibitors
GABA Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Antimanic Agents
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By now you will have heard the news: InfoWorld has closed down its print edition and moved to a Web-only model. Over the coming weeks and months, InfoWorld will continue to evolve to take better advantage of the online medium. You can expect many changes -- some subtle, others less so. For example, this will be the last edition of Open Enterprise.
Two years ago I launched this column based on a simple premise: Open source and open standards are here to stay. Where other publications pontificated on what it would take for open source to be "ready for the enterprise," the basic assumption of this column was that enterprises were already taking advantage of open source software at every level of their IT infrastructures. Open source was a permanent part of the enterprise software landscape -- and, in fact, had been for years.
The challenge for IT managers, as I saw it, was to align the use of open source software with the larger enterprise IT strategy. Open code, in and of itself, is not reason enough to commit to a piece of software for a mission-critical task. There are countless other factors to consider, from licensing and legal issues to interoperability and availability of support.
Each week in this column, I sought out and explored the topics that were foremost in the minds of enterprise IT managers considering deploying open source software. My goal was not to be a cheerleader for open source -- as I've said from the beginning, it doesn't need one -- but rather to delve into the issues and present them in ways that would help IT managers make decisions with confidence.
So why end it now? Simply put, the discussion around open source has grown far beyond the ability of a weekly column to encapsulate it all.
The intervening years have only served to validate the original concept of Open Enterprise. Open source now casts a long shadow in enterprise IT, indeed. It's no longer confined to Web servers, middleware, and server-room infrastructure. Today it has a place in enterprise applications, and it's poised to make a serious bid for the desktop.
That's why, given InfoWorld's new online focus, it only seems fitting to set the topic free. The end of Open Enterprise doesn't mean InfoWorld is stepping back from its coverage of open source and open standards. Far from it. If anything, over the coming months you can expect to see InfoWorld's growing roster of contributors explore the world of free software, collaborative development, and open standards with increasing vigor.
For starters, if you're not reading Matt Asay and Dave Rosenberg's Open Sources blog here at InfoWorld.com, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Matt and Dave are both knee-deep in the open source software industry, serving key roles at Alfresco and MuleSource, respectively. Once you get a dose of their insightful daily commentary, I'm sure they'll become a mainstay of your RSS reader.
And InfoWorld's coverage won't stop there. We've ramped up our news beat to pay special attention to breaking stories from the world of open source, and you can expect to see coverage that other venues can't match -- not just on a weekly basis, but every day. What's more, with the Open Source Business Conference now under the umbrella of InfoWorld's mega-successful events group, the open source community will have opportunities to interact with InfoWorld's editors and experts like never before.
It's been a good two years, and I've appreciated all the feedback and interactions with InfoWorld's audience -- surely the best and brightest in the field of enterprise IT. Now, get ready for the next phase of InfoWorld's history. It's going to be a banner year for open source.


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GRANDVIEW -- If Gary Hyde is playing harmonica, it must be the Little Corner Bakeshop.
For almost a quarter of a century, you've been able to order coffee, a cinnamon bun and a guaranteed smile -- your own -- from this unique café.
And if it happens to be someone's birthday, the above-mentioned Hyde will pop up with his harmonica faster than you can say "cream and sugar."
The secret to its success? A dozen very special, special-needs adults such as Hyde who help out the eight regular staff.
'This place has been a little godsend to the community'-- Wayne Manweiller, Grandview Gateways Inc. non-profit chairman
There may not be another café like it in the country. "This place has been a little godsend to the community," said Wayne Manweiller, chairman of Grandview Gateways Inc., the non-profit agency that oversees the bakeshop and other local programs for special-needs adults.
The bakeshop is busy, lively and brimming with giggles all morning long, during hours when most cafés are empty. Then the lunch crowd files in. The place is so popular, people line up in the mornings waiting for it to open. In winter, customers wait in their vehicles.
The people of Grandview, 360 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, are clearly onto something. How do they explain the unique atmosphere inside the bakeshop?
Carolyn Crossley, Gateways executive director, doesn't like to make the comparison to children but says there's a similar unguarded nature about special-needs people. They don't conceal their emotions and expect to be "unconditionally accepted."
It rubs off. There's no way you can walk into the Little Corner Bakeshop and gripe, grumble and wallow in self-pity.
Everyone benefits. "It's nice to see how happy the participants can be. It's a big changeover from some places," said Manweiller.
"They're not cut off from society," said Crossley. "They're integrated. They form relationships they wouldn't normally have." And they learn. "(Participants) are learning how to interact with other people, and what's acceptable and what isn't," she said.
It's hard to say who benefits more, the participants or the community. "People get the warm-and-fuzzies here," she said.
Gateways originally started a program for special-needs adults to make crafts. It decided to hold a bake sale to raise some funds to buy supplies. The bake sale went so well, they held another, and another. It eventually dawned on officials people were more interested in buying bakery than crafts.
The bakeshop started in 1989 but moved into a furniture store on Main Street in 1993 where it gets the foot traffic. Neither is it "little" as its name claims. It has 16 tables, and they fill up. That's in a town of just 800 people. Neither is it just a bakeshop. It also serves lunches. Over the years, officials who run special-needs programs elsewhere have visited to see how they do it.
In the kitchen, you find what makes the bakeshop tick. Pearl Galbraith is spotted peeling carrots at the end of a long table. She could retire, someone explains to her, but she just loves peeling carrots too much, followed by dicing, etc. Johnna Yanke has a smile that could crack an egg; make that a carton of eggs. "I bake. I love baking," she says, especially those famous cinnamon buns.
They assist the eight regular staff. They'll clean tables, load the dishwasher, sweep the floors, make the coffee, fill the sugar bowls and creamers, peel vegetables and help with making salads and baked goods.
They also decorate. The Little Corner Bakeshop is now festooned with Christmas decorations. Once those come down, up go decorations for Valentine's Day, then St. Patrick's Day, then Easter, then spring, etc. It's always festive.
The bakeshop is successful even with limited hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and only weekdays. While it doesn't break even, it does cover expenses (but not building costs) and several salaries. Participants get a training allowance of $3.50 per day, which is standard in Manitoba, said Crossley.
However, the bean-counters at Child and Family Services think the bottom line should be better. Crossley defends the program.
"Our staff ratio is higher because our staff are doing more than just looking after people," she said.
The bakery puts together dainty plates that are very popular at this time of year. They also do special orders. One woman in California orders cinnamon buns once a month. Its sandwiches are all made with homemade bread. It also has a students' menu with things such as chili on a bun and tacos in a bag.
While it's a training program, most participants don't find work elsewhere. It might be different in a city but there are fewer opportunities in a small town like Grandview. Gateways is one of the town's biggest employees, with 45 full- and part-time staff, for 27 program participants.