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I learned a lot from my many years in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and I'm still learning from the organization. This summer, for example, I learned that, as a non-profit, the BSA wasn't paying much attention to good governance practices when it reaffirmed its policy against admitting gay leaders to its ranks.
You probably recall the national attention given to the BSA when it developed its own version of "don't ask, don't tell" for scout leaders. It led to a 2000 Supreme Court ruling in which the court found that, as a private organization, the BSA could discriminate against homosexuals based on its First Amendment right of free association. Since then, pressure has built within the organization to reconsider the discriminatory hiring policy. It culminated this summer when, after a two-year evaluation, the BSA announced it would retain its anti-gay policy.
As a lawyer, I couldn't help but notice that the organization's governing body, the BSA National Executive Board, had no apparent role in this decision. Instead, according to statements released by the BSA, the BSA's top executive and national president commissioned a "special committee" of 11 unnamed volunteers who unanimously recommended to the executive committee that the membership policy remain unchanged. The executive committee accepted the recommendation. And, that was that.
Ordinarily, an executive committee can act on behalf of the full board between meetings, and that makes sense if routine decisions have to be made quickly, especially if full board meetings are only occasional and gathering the board is inconvenient or expensive. But here, the issue was hardly routine, and the BSA's board regularly meets at least three times a year, according to its own website. It seemed odd to me that the outcome of a two-year study on an issue watched closely, both within and outside of the organization, would not be addressed by the full board, the next meeting of which would not be far off.
My eyebrows arched when I learned that shortly after the policy announcement, two members of the National Executive Board came out publicly against it. One of them, Ernst & Young CEO James Turley, had been on record as against the policy and vowed to seek a reversal of it. The other, AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson, also seeks to make the BSA an inclusive organization and will become the Board's president in 2014.
Isn't that odd?
Imagine if the BSA had allowed its full board to discuss the membership policy recommendation as an agenda item of a regularly scheduled face-to-face meeting. That is a good governance practice and what the law requires in almost all states. Certainly Turley and future Board President Stephenson would have spoken against keeping the current rules. Maybe there were others who agreed with them. Might those views have swayed others? We will never know because this issue, an issue that could affect the future viability of the organization, was never brought before its governing body. There was never a vote that would reveal the degree of support or nonsupport for the organization's membership policy. Indeed, the only thing BSA members or the public know about the decision-making process is that
11 unknown members of a "special committee" agreed unanimously to maintain the anti-gay employment policy, and the body empowered to run the organization had no say in the matter. Moreover, to the extent any Executive Board member was actually on the record, it was public opposition.
Is that any way to run an organization? No, of course not. The BSA is the second major non-profit this year to bypass its governing body on a major decision—the first was the University of Virginia (UVA). The outcome for UVA was a disaster. The BSA should be prepared for a similar fate.
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A photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger performing a sex act has supposedly been found in a storage unit that once belonged to "Penthouse" magazine founder Bob Guccione, according to TMZ.
This is about as surprising as hearing that California's former governor speaks with an accent.
The picture is reportedly part of a large collection of artifacts discovered in a storage space once owned by Guccione, who died in 2010.
I hope they were wearing decontamination suits when they went inside.
According to the New York Post, the photo of a young Schwarzenegger was discovered by an unnamed man who bought up the lockers after Guccione went bankrupt. The unit also reportedly contained unpublished nude pictures of Madonna and Lauren Hutton as well as Guccione's personal files detailing the situation surrounding his decision to publish naked pictures of then Miss America Vanessa Williams.
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Postprandial Lipid Metabolism in Familial Hypercholesterolaemia:Effects of Fish Oils (FIFH)
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified April 2012 by Dick C Chan, The University of Western Australia.
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
The University of Western Australia
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
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First received: April 10, 2012
Last updated: April 11, 2012
Last verified: April 2012
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether fish oil supplementation is effective in the treatment of abnormal fat metabolism in subjects with elevated cholesterolaemia.
|Hypertriglyceridaemia Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
|Dietary Supplement: Fish oil capsule Drug: HMG Coenzyme reductase
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation on Postprandial Lipid Metabolism in Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: hypercholesterolemia
MedlinePlus related topics: Cholesterol
Drug Information available for: Fish oilU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Dick C Chan, The University of Western Australia:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Postprandial changes in triglyceride-rich lipoprotein concentrations [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]Incremental area-under-the-curve (AUC) for triglycerides, apoB-48 and retinyl palmitate
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Triglyceride-rich lipoprotein kinetics [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]Kinetic studies of apoB48 and apoB-100 kinetics
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Fish oil
Dietary Supplement: Fish oil capsule
4g Omega capsule for 12 weeks
Other Name: Omacor
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
FH subjects with standard treatment (statin treatment)
Drug: HMG Coenzyme reductase
All FH subjects are on standard statin treatment during study period
Other Name: Statin
Detailed Description:
The use of statin therapy in familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is known to reduce cardiovascular risk and is a first line recommendation, however, there is considerable residual risk predicted by the presence of fasting and post-prandial hypertriglyceridaemia.
This study will examine the effect of oral n-3 fatty acid ethyl esters supplementation (4g/day, Omacor) on postprandial hypertriglyceridaemia and post-prandial arterial function when administrated to FH patients at increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to their residual fasting hypertriglyceridaemia.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with FH (genetically defined LDL-receptor mutation or Dutch score >8) on statin treatment only
- Hypertriglyceridaemia on a random blood sample (triglycerides >1.5mml/L)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with diabetes mellitus
- major systemic illness or use of steroids or other lipid-regulating drugs (such as niacin, fibrate and colesevelam)
- patients on hypocaloric diets or LDL apheresis; anaemia, haemorrhage and pregnancy.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01577056
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01577056
|Contact: Dick Chan, PhD
|Australia, Western Australia
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|Not yet recruiting
|Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 6000
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The University of Western Australia
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
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|Dick Chan, Phd
|The University of Western Australia
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Dick C Chan, The University of Western Australia:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Chan DC, Pang J, Barrett PH, Sullivan DR, Mori TA, Burnett JR, van Bockxmeer FM, Watts GF. Effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on arterial elasticity in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia on statin therapy. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2016 Dec;26(12):1140-1145. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2016.07.012. Epub 2016 Aug 3.
|Responsible Party:
|Dick C Chan, Assistant Professor, The University of Western Australia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01577056 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NHMRC1028883 ( Other Grant/Funding Number: NHMRC )
|Study First Received:
|April 10, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 11, 2012
Keywords provided by Dick C Chan, The University of Western Australia:
Familial hypercholesterolaemia
Postprandial dyslipidaemia
Fish oil treatment
Cardiovascular disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
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The traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top. In this chapter, the authors explain how a perfect storm of demographic and economic forces has redefined the workplace, the workforce, and the nature of work itself. The need for companies to provide more and better ways to engage a diverse employee population is taking center stage, driving workplace customization as a means to build a more resilient and adaptable organizational model. Using an engaging narrative style and clear graphics, this chapter describes the shifting world of work, the changes that are propelling the transformation, and the compelling benefits of becoming a corporate lattice organization. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 2 of "The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work."
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The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments on how retailers can notify their shoppers about food safety risks.
The agency said it is seeking input on how to create an effective way for retailers to alert consumers about food safety risks in foods they may have purchased, including recalls.
According to the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, the FDA may require suppliers to submit to the agency "consumer-oriented" information regarding items that could be a food safety risk. Fresh produce — raw fruits and vegetables — are exempted from the requirements because they are often in bulk displays and not readily identified by the time consumers take them home.
The 2011 food safety law directs FDA to use that "consumer-oriented" information from suppliers to create one-page summaries that would be posted on FDA's website to help notify consumers. Grocery stores with 15 or more locations would be would be required to prominently display the one-page FDA summary within 24 hours of FDA's web posting. The stores would be required to display the information for 14 days, according to the FDA.
The FDA said it was looking for input on several issues, including:
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- what constitutes prominent display or sharing of the information by a grocery store;
- the effect on grocery stores from posting the information;
- if the FDA should require industry to submit consumer-oriented information, even if items will not be sold at the retail level.
One hole in the FDA's planned regulation is that it doesn't apply to foodservice, said Michael McCartney, managing principal with QLM Consulting, Sausalito, Calif. The regulation doesn't require foodservice operators or restaurants to notify consumers.
"Hopefully that will get reviewed and corrected," he said.
While raw fruits and vegetables are exempted from the regulation, McCartney said the 2011 food safety law said that retailers should post notices in a conspicuous place, such as a bulletin board, in their stores to notify consumers of all recalls.
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Guide to Building Support for Your Tribal Library
A toolkit for getting the support you need from people who are in a position to help you and the library.
Sample Message Sheet
Key Message
"Books bring the world to the reservation"
Talking Points
The tribal library is a community gathering place where people come to learn, connect, and read.
It's the only place on the reservation where people of all ages go to learn and enjoy.
We introduce children to the joy of reading and help with their homework.
We have brought the Internet to the community, making the library the only place on the reservation where families can freely connect to loved ones far away.
We are missing out on serving a portion of the reservation who most need us—very young children, the homebound, elderly, and those without transportation to the library. (Problem)
The Headstart program does not have a regular story time or ways for the children to check out books.
Our location is not near any neighborhoods or other tribal offices. People on foot are very unlikely to come to the library.
Elders and their caretakers often aren't able to leave their homes for reading material.
We have a plan to bring books to people in isolated areas (Solution)
We will schedule time at the Head Start to bring story-time and books to the children there.
We will deliver books to people's homes, the community hall, and the Elder Care Home on a regular basis.
Since we moved to our new location, our average number of books checked out have dropped from ??? books per month to ??? per month.
??% of our people live outside of the 5 mile radius surrounding our library
?? number of our children, or ??%, attend Head Start
Sally Mae, who was taking care of her grandma at home last year said that oftentimes, the Meals on Wheels delivery person was her lifeline—providing her with not only meals for her elder, but also brought books and magazines that she could read to her grandma and for herself. Sally said that a regular book delivery service would have been very much appreciated at that time of great need.
Call to Action
"We need your support."
• We have an opportunity to apply for a grant to buy a delivery vehicle, for maintenance, and to
build the lending collection.
• We'll need the tribe to support this program in the long-run
• We ask that you support a mobile library for our reservation.
Basic Tools
Annual Report
A basic tool for telling your library's story, it should be brief, attractive and reinforce the library's key message. Make sure it gets into the hands of tribal government officials, funders and other key stakeholders.
Business Card
Don't forget the obvious. Be sure to include the library's URL and hours. Give it out as often as you can.
Another medium to publicize the library with basic information (hours, location, and URL). An attractive brochure should catch the eye of the public.
Communication Plan
A plan will help you get a bigger bang for your buck. Elements are: goals, objectives, positioning, key message, target audiences, strategies for delivering the message and evaluation.
Fact Sheet
A good way to present key points quickly. Keep narrative to a minimum. Use bullets to highlight key facts/statistics. Shorter is better—no more than two pages. Use with tribal officials, community groups, reporters or anyone who wants information—fast.
News Release
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Public Service Announcement
Free space for ads may be available from local newspapers and radio stations. Ask about availability and guidelines.
Both can be useful tools for providing timely information, especially to those who might not come into the library. The trick is to keep them simple and current. You might consider utilizing social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, to keep people informed about the library.
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Can Ernie Grunfeld Bring an NBA Championship back to New York?
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The smoke emanates from a Macanudo Baron de Rothschild. "Just one a day," Grunfeld says, almost sheepishly. Other people say Grunfeld's office is too full of smoke, too often, for "just one a day." "He's always relighting after lunch," says Josh Rosenfeld, the Knicks' director of public relations. "Though it could be one cigar, one very big one."
Grunfeld, president and general manager of the New York Knicks, was introduced to cigars on a golf course several years ago by Mike Gminski, Charlotte Hornets color commentator and 14-year NBA pro. He's been hooked ever since. He even has a humidor with a lid fashioned from a piece of the old 1973 Garden floor, played on by the last Knicks championship team.
It is a late spring afternoon and Grunfeld, 40, has time to relax and draw on a Mac or any number of favorites. He'll try Upmanns, Dunhills, Davidoffs, most anything that his smoking buddies--Gminski, broadcaster Ahmad Rashad and Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak among them--light up. He's open to new experiences; a good trait for one who must bring together the right pieces for a championship game.
Grunfeld has a friendly, inviting mien, though when talking about his plans for the Knicks he is like a card player holding them close to the vest.
His plate has been full--overflowing--since the start of the 1995-1996 season. First, the entire National Basketball Association had to await the outcome of the union decertification issue, which threatened to wipe out the NBA season. In February, he had to unload two ordinary but high-priced players, Charles Smith and Doug Christie, to make room under the salary cap to deal for free agents this summer. Then he fired coach Don Nelson and replaced him with a more fiery Jeff Van Gundy, whom he hoped would bring back the Knicks' "identity of defense and rebounding" and their "work ethic." In May, the Knicks made a two-year commitment to Van Gundy, 34, a longtime Knicks assistant coach and protégé of Pat Riley.
Grunfeld's best player, Patrick Ewing, has not been dominant enough to deliver a championship. If basketball were likened to a college course, then Ewing's grade is "incomplete." After 11 years and millions in paychecks, the Knicks have not won with Ewing. In his defense, it could be said that whenever he's been double-teamed since 1985, he's had to kick the ball out to Trent Tucker or Darryl Walker, Mark Jackson or Gerald Wilkins, Johnny Newman or Doc Rivers, John Starks or Derek Harper--and untold, nondescript others--who couldn't bury an 18-footer on a consistent basis. Not since Walt Frazier, one of the stars of the Knicks' championship teams of the early Seventies, has the franchise had a guard who could hit jump shots regularly while playing big minutes.
Of 29 teams in the NBA, 27 finish the season earlier than they'd like to. Then one more, the one losing in the finals, must ask what went wrong and what it can do to get over the hump. The Knicks are two good players away--perhaps three--from an NBA championship. The Knicks lost in the second round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bulls in May, four games to one. It was the second consecutive year the Knicks failed to survive the second round in a tournament in which a team must win four rounds for a championship.
For the most part, the New York Knicks have a trench warfare style of play more suitable to the playoffs--the NBA's second and real season that runs from April to June. But the Chicago Bulls, who went on to win their fourth championship in six years, have haunted the dreams of several teams. The Knicks' defeat at the hands of the Bulls marks the fifth time since 1989 that a Jordan-led squad has sent them packing.
Were Chicago to be magically scratched from the league, the Knicks of the Nineties might count themselves a huge success. In the last five years, the Knicks have had a regular-season won-lost record of 270-140, a .659 winning percentage. But in sports, as George C. Scott snarled to Paul Newman in The Hustler, "you don't count yardage." There's only one question worth asking when it's over: Did you win? The Knicks last won an NBA championship in 1973. Being good isn't enough.
The NBA playoffs are a Darwinian battle waged on a 50-by-94-foot court. Easy baskets are few, as are the breakaway layups and three- digit scores that mark the regular season. Defense and rebounding--which show team will as much as team skill--tend to dominate.
Two years ago, the Knicks were a paradigm of smothering defense, allowing their opponents an average of just 91.5 points per game. It was the lowest points-per-game average allowed since 1954, an extraordinary and undersold accomplishment. In this season's playoffs, they battled Chicago proudly in every game, playing ferocious defense and leaving the Bulls seething, battered and bruised.
Whatever success the in-your-face, disruptive Knicks have had is best measured in the kinds of stats that only assistant coaches in suits keep: shots contested, loose balls retrieved, offensive rebounds allowed, passes stolen and deflected. In a word, effort plays.
New York fans demand it that way. The Garden faithful can tolerate a year without a championship banner. But they want a team that mirrors the lives of people in Gotham: a team that fights. The chant of "De- fense, De-fense" began with the Knicks' championship squads from 1970 and 1973--with players like Willis Reed and Frazier, Dave DeBusschere and Dick Barnett, Bill Bradley and Earl Monroe, Jerry Lucas and Phil Jackson--and it's been the identity of their better teams since. "Defense has been the trademark," says Grunfeld. He ought to know.
Grunfeld grew up in Forest Hills, New York. On days when he wasn't battling to hold onto some asphalt court in Queens, Grunfeld crossed the East River with his father to watch the Knicks in their white-and-orange uniforms, playing in a spanking new Garden before they had replay scoreboards, Knicks City Dancers or a cocky theme song. "One of the memories I have as a little kid, sitting up in the blue seats--way up high with my dad and watching the Knicks play--was the shot going up and all five players would box out. And then you can just hear the ball bounce and one of the Knicks would pick it up and you'd have the loudest cheer of the night. The fans realized that they were all working as a team and doing something that was very important to winning games. I'm not sure it's emphasized as much nowadays as then."
As time goes on, those Knicks teams from 1969 to 1973--shining brightest during Nixon's presidency, before VCRs, before disco even--will grow larger and larger in his mind's eye. Until the day....
Grunfeld's family arrived from Satu-Mare, Romania, in 1964. "We couldn't speak a word of English," Grunfeld recalls. "My dad was a house painter for two years and he had saved up money to buy a small business. He ran a fabric store in Romania and so he bought a fabric store here in the South Bronx in 1966." The family was fortunate to emigrate, Grunfeld stresses, since Romania had a quota for how many Jews could leave. His father, Alex, his mother, Livia, and Ernie worked at the store 12 hours a day, six days a week.
"I worked there until I became really involved in basketball. Then my father saw me play and said, 'You know what? I'll hire somebody to work at the store. You go play.' He saw how much interest I had. I was in the tenth grade. He was a sports fanatic and a very good athlete in his own right in Europe," Grunfeld says. "He was one of the best goalies as a soccer player. One of the top three or four in the whole country. He was also an excellent Ping-Pong player, world-ranked. And he grasped basketball.
"There was no basketball in Romania. I started playing here in Queens as a young kid, going down to the playground. I couldn't speak English. But everybody was playing basketball. I was just one of the kids. I think New York City players in general learn to compete at a young age. If you don't win, you can't stay out on the court. If you lose, you may have to wait an hour or an hour and a half before you go out on the court again. So the games were pretty serious."
Grunfeld wanted to stay on the court. "The better I got, the more friends I had. At first, I used to drive a lot and go inside a lot more." But then, the 6-foot-6-inch Grunfeld says with a laugh, "For some reason I stopped growing. In high school I could dominate on the inside if I wanted to. But in college, the players were a lot bigger and I had to improve my outside game. In my freshman and sophomore years in college, I took the whole summer and really worked on my outside shot."
He attended the University of Tennessee and played with Bernard King, who would later become the greatest offensive player in Knicks history, once scoring back-to-back 50-point games, winning an NBA scoring title in 1985 and finishing his career with 19,655 points. At Tennessee, the duo would become known as the "Ernie and Bernie Show," with Ernie averaging 22 points per game and Bernie nearly 26. "He was just a great competitor," Grunfeld says of King. "It was interesting because it was a couple of New York City guys going down south--a whole different culture. We were pretty brash."
A 215-pound forward, Grunfeld played nine seasons in the NBA, with stops in Milwaukee, Kansas City and New York. Each NBA stop had its own distinction. Starting in Milwaukee in 1977, Grunfeld was coached by Don Nelson, whom he would hire for the Knicks in 1995. The other two stops were marked by appearances in the conference finals.
The Kansas City Kings of 1980-1981 were one of the great underdog stories of basketball. In the first round of the playoffs, the no-name Kings eked out a victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. Then, against a Phoenix Stars team that had proven stars in Walter Davis, Dennis Johnson and Truck Robinson, the Kings pulled off an upset in seven grueling games. People took notice of the overachieving bunch, with Otis Birdsong, Scott Wedman, Phil Ford, Reggie King, Sam Lacy, Joe Meriweather and Grunfeld. But their run ended in the Western Conference Finals against the Houston Rockets and their indomitable center, Moses Malone.
Grunfeld's final stop as a pro was with the New York Knicks in 1982. One circle in his life was now complete. The boy from New York now played for New York. He played under Hubie Brown, who had been coach of the year with the Atlanta Hawks in 1978 and had coached the Kentucky Colonels to an American Basketball Association championship in 1975. "Hubie Brown was an excellent basketball coach," Grunfeld says. "He was extremely prepared. He was great with X's and O's, very organized and a very competitive guy. So I enjoyed playing for Hubie and we had a lot of success playing with him."
The 1984 Knicks brought the city back some of the excitement of the old days. "In 1984, we took the Celtics seven games [in the conference finals]; they went on to win the championship. They had a great team--Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Dennis Johnson.
"Hubie's philosophy was that he had two units that played different styles. The first unit was more half-court and more offensive-oriented. The first unit went to our big guys down low [read: Bernard King and Bill Cartwright] and then we went to our second unit and Hubie was substituting all five of us within a minute or two. We pressed the whole time and we would just go all out and give 110 percent and change the tempo of the game. Hubie wanted us to leave everything out there on the court, and then he went back to the starting unit in the hopes of wearing the other team down a little bit. It was very successful."
Though Grunfeld was not getting the minutes or points that he had been getting earlier in his career, he was a crucial part of that team that went to a seventh game against a superior opponent.
"Ernie was like a coach on the second unit," recalls Brown, now a basketball analyst for the TNT network. "He had a great aptitude for the game and he and Louis Orr always made sound and thought-out suggestions and were very helpful. I would keep the two of them next to our coaches. They were the best ever at the second phase of the 2-2-1 trap. They played the passing lanes, had great anticipation and made up for a lack of quickness with IQ." Larry Bird said that he knew the team that won the series would win the NBA championship. He was right; the Celtics beat the Lakers in seven games in the finals.
While the Kansas City and New York squads were two highlights of Grunfeld's pro career, the high point of his basketball life occurred in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where he played on the U.S. team that beat Yugoslavia in the finals to win the gold medal. But "we wanted to play Russia," Grunfeld says. (In the 1972 Olympics in Munich, the Soviet Union was given the gold in one of the most controversial finishes in basketball history.)
Grunfeld found himself at a crossroads in 1986. "I had an opportunity to play with some other teams for a year, maybe two years." But the astute on-the-court performer made an astute career move. "The Knicks asked if I'd be interested in broadcasting. I worked on the radio doing color with Jim Karvellas, and then moved to the TV side. I had to learn to be analytical and study all the teams and all the plays and ask people why they do certain things and ask a lot about different players and habits and what they like to do in certain situations. It was very good preparation."
He left broadcasting in 1989 to be an assistant coach under Knicks coach Stu Jackson for a year and a half. "I told them I had aspirations of becoming involved in management. There was an opening for the director of administration, so I came in and took that job for about a year. And then Dave Checketts came in [from the league office] in March 1991. He was interviewing five or six guys for the vice president of player personnel job. He hired me. I became GM a couple of years later [in 1993]."
Grunfeld saw the Knicks' fortunes take a sharp turn for the better when they signed Pat Riley as coach in 1991. The team had won just 39 games the previous season. But Riley, who had coached the "Showtime" Lakers to five NBA titles between 1982 and 1988, gave the Knicks instant stature, with a 51-31 won-loss record in his first season. The team began a roll whose momentum hasn't stopped.
From 1992 through 1995, the Knicks under Riley won 223 games and lost 105, not counting the playoffs, a winning percentage of .680. This little detail seems the most overlooked point in the media rush to castigate Riley after he left the Knicks with one year remaining on his contract. He took the Knicks almost to the mountaintop, but for four years, Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Reggie Miller--and the Knicks themselves--kept them from the peak. Yet Russ Salzburg, sports host on WFAN, an all-sports radio station in New York City, called Riley a "cold-hearted snake" who "slithered" out of town. Whether Salzburg and other critics ever bothered to look in a record book is anyone's guess. If they had, they'd find that Riley's .680 mark is better than that of any Knicks coach in history. Not even Red Holzman in the Knicks' glory years of 1969 through 1973 put up that kind of a run. Yes, Riley left rudely, faxing his resignation to the Knicks' offices. But his failure to stand before the press and take hits while explaining a broken contract is a management and media issue, not the substantive one.
The Knicks subsequently dropped "tampering" charges against the Miami Heat, who negotiated with Riley in 1995 while he was still under contract with the Knicks, settling for compensation--$1 million and a first-round draft pick from Miami. Case closed.
But the real question raised by Riley's quitting is this: Is it possible, just possible, that he was right--that these Knicks can't climb higher?
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In Order to Repeat History, Rahul Must Exhibit Strong Will That Has Been Invisible so Far
By Prabhu Chawla | Published: 19th January 2014 06:00 AM |
Last Updated: 19th January 2014 03:02 AM | A+A A- |
As Sonia Gandhi readies to kick off the espadrilles of power, Rahul Gandhi is stepping into her shoes. For all practical purposes, the succession is complete and the reveille has been sounded. Rahul is now undisputed navarch of the Congress armada. As his mother monitors him from the shore, he has already drawn the maritime chart for his singular kind of politics to make waves. If the tone and tenor of his 45-minute AICC speech is any indication, the 118-year-old Congress party is going to get a younger look, and its walk would signal aggression and attitude. Rahul's Ark will be different from his mother's or his father's. His nine-year stint in politics is seen as a gingerbread house, with no visible achievements. Rahul was perceived as a part-time politician who excelled in occasional outbursts against the establishment and then vanish. Not anymore. Not only did he take centre stage at the AICC meet held to galvanise a highly demoralised party for the Trafalgar of 2014, he also demanded explanation from each PCC president for the party's pathetic performance in their states. During his 12-hour individual interaction with satraps, he told each in no uncertain terms that they would be held accountable for both deeds and misdeeds. It was obvious that Rahul had taken to heart the question mark on his ability to lead a party and a nation of over a billion. Without officially declaring himself PM candidate, Rahul has picked up the gauntlet thrown by BJP's Narendra Modi.
The young Gandhi has decided not only to define politics but also lay down economic principles which his party would follow. Though his style is vastly different from his father Rajiv's, Rahul has chosen to be a rebel against the system. In 1985, Rajiv made a vow to get rid of tainted leaders from the party and government. Rajiv had lamented, "Millions of ordinary Congress workers are full of enthusiasm for Congress policies and programmes. But they are handicapped, for on their backs ride the brokers of power and influence, who dispense patronage to convert a mass movement into feudal oligarchy. They are self-perpetuating cliques who thrive by invoking slogans of caste and religion and by enmeshing the living body of the Congress in their net of avarice. For such persons, the masses do not count. Their lifestyle, their thinking—or lack of it, their self-aggrandisement, their corrupt ways, their linkages with vested interests in society, and their sanctimonious posturing are wholly incompatible with work among people. They are reducing Congress organisation to shell from which the spirit of service and sacrifice has been empted."
Twenty-eight years later, his son Rahul also believes that the Congress has lost its unique identity as a party of the masses. Unlike his father and grandmother who often found themselves in the thick of political machinations, Rahul has always been an outsider. He has mostly been out of the country during his formative years. For him, the current composition of the Congress is both unfamiliar and a liability. After nine years of acquiring political experience, Rahul will now set the rules of the game. He is not going to lose sleep over the Sensex. He will push the party to the position where it began—left of centre. The Congress is on the cusp of taking a left turn after almost two decades of Right wing posturing. Under PM Manmohan Singh, it has turned the government into a vehicle for crony capitalism and followed a growth model which made the rich richer and the poor poorer. Rahul feels that the UPA government was inaccessible to ordinary people, while unrolling the red carpet to corporates. His advisors have convinced him that those who chased the markets met their nemesis at the hustings. Chandrababu Naidu lost in Andhra Pradesh after spending more time wooing non-voting wealthy influencers than those who vote. The Left lost West Bengal badly when its pro-industry CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya indulged in flagrant flirtations with the capitalist world. The Congress was routed in 1996 when the people chose to vote out a government which bent over backwards to protect industry. Rahulites claim that their imperator is hell bent on changing all that. At the AICC meet, he spoke about looking after the interests of the poorest of poor, fighting corruption, giving more representation to youth and dismantling existing structure controlled by the old guard. He left none in doubt that he was the de facto Congress president, PM and High Command all rolled into one; as Alexander Pope wrote in An Essay on Man, "He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind". Henceforth his word will be the command. Those who fail to follow would fall by the wayside.
Rahul knows he is not the darling of the middle classes. He understands that support from the mighty comes with a price tag. He realises that he failed to define his mission and vision. But his interaction with party followers was aimed at aligning them all along one meridian. The content of his speech echoed the language of poor workers, he feels, have been kept out of decision-making process and deprived of their share in economic growth. It is evident that the fourth-generation Gandhi is determined to repeat history. If he takes his agenda forward of purging the old guard, he will face the same resistance his grandmother did with the Syndicate. In his political adventurism to give a new chehra (face), chal (walk) and charitra (character) to the ancien regime, Rahul will have to exhibit a strong will that has been invisible so far. If his past is any benchmark, Rahul will have to take gruelling aerobic lessons to make his future shine and reverse the trend of shrinking acceptability of Brand Gandhi in a competitive electoral market.
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They used breathing apparatus, a hose reel and a covering jet to put out the fire.
Shortly after at 1.14am two crews from Evesham Fire Station were called to Lifford Hall in Lower Green and found another fire in the doorway.
They used breathing apparatus and a hose reel to put out the flames.
There was also a fire at Broadway Library, which will now be closed for the rest of the week.
And at am this morning staff at the Barn Close Surgery in High Street found flammable liquid had been thrown over the door but not ignited.
Detective Inspector Neil Austin of Worcester CID said: "Although we are at the very early stages of our investigation, it is clear these incidents are linked. Detectives are working closely with fire investigators from Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service and forensic examinations are taking place at each of the crime scenes.
"It is very unusual for a series of buildings to be targeted in one go like this, especially in Broadway, which is otherwise a very peaceful place.
"Most of them have not been too seriously affected, except for St Eadburgha's Church, which is an historic and well-loved local building and has received some serious damage to its door.
"Thankfully no one has been hurt, but obviously the consequences of these fires could have been far worse and we need to find those responsible as soon as possible.
"If anyone saw any suspicious activity in Broadway last night, particularly between 11pm and 1am, please contact us straight away. One witness saw a small, dark-coloured car make off at speed from the scene of the police station and library fires, which may be or may not be involved."
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The Board of Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC (the Company) announces today it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from J.P. Morgan Securities plc.
Ordinary Shares:
Date of purchase: 14 October 2016
Number of ordinary shares purchased: 100,000
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I think I figured out the answer, at least I got mine working. Edit your /etc/network/interfaces so that it only contains the follwoing:
Something about the D-bus manager won't initialize. Now I can't say that it will work for wicd, but it did work for network-manager-gnome which is infinitely more asthetically apealing anyway. If it doesn't fix your problem, try:Code:auto lo iface lo inet loopback
Then rightclick your panel>Add to Panel>Notification AreaCode:apt-get install synaptec apt-get install network-manager-gnome
You may also need to run nm-applet from the command line.
Please admins, unlock my account so this info can get to this guy.


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Tallahassee, Florida- August 31, 2012- 11:25pm
Bobby Bowden now joins the list of names in the FSU Hall of Fame.
"It's the hall of fame and I appreciate it," said Bowden, the former head coach of the FSU football team.
Among his huge crowd of supporters are former players from even his first days of coaching.
"Well I met Coach Bowden, I came out of Miami Florida to this little podunck junior college and thought what does this guy know that I don't know? He was about six years older than me, and he showed me very quickly," said Win Lavender, who used to play for Bowden at South Georgia College.
Bowden coached Lavender and many others at South Georgia College, before going to Howard College, then to Florida State. It was at FSU that he coached from 1976 to 2009. He won 389 games and is now the winningest coach in college football history. This night, he said, is almost like a reunion.
"It feels good to see a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time," said Bowden.
And so surrounded by friends, family and fans, Bowden accepted this honor and even talked about his excitement for the new football season.
"I can't wait for the season I'm very excited about it, Now that I'm not coaching I can watch everybody play," said Bowden.
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I got permanently banned from their forums 6 years ago. I was like 14.
I don't even remember what I did...
My point: I don't think any moderation system will ever be without criticism from the moderated.
And I know that I certainly couldn't treat different transgressions equally throughout a day of moderation work. It would depend upon my mood, what I had to eat, how much sleep I had, and many other factors. This is to be expected, even from "professionals". If you then disagree with the action, you simply have to use the proper channels to appeal it.
If you chose rock as a weapon, in order to beat a pair of scissors, don't start whining when you get pwn'd by a piece of paper.
Really, the same criticism shows up here too. It's an imperfect world full of judgement calls. Not everyone sees things the same way and it's ridiculous to assume that we read every post in GenD. That's why post reporting and an appeal process are important.
I'm sure that Blizzard has their reasons ("Every voice matters") but I've personally never understood why they don't allow their MVP's to do more in the way of directing traffic on their forums, especially nights and weekends.
Just my opinion though.
Being funny is mostly just telling the truth about things.
I just avoid the official Blizzard forums on principle now, seeing how much bullshit people are allowed to spew on those forums without getting banned...
And especially the Diablo 3 forums. Seriously. Don't go there. It. Will. Ruin. Your. Life.
Being called foolhardy just means regrets and limits won't ever stop you.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2191101521 sticky at the very top and listed in the forum rules
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Being funny is mostly just telling the truth about things.
Allowing MVPs to moderate for free might get people higher up questioning why they need to pay for it.
Personally I would go for self moderating forums based on the report button.
Reported 20 times by different accounts automatic deletion.
Self cleaning and no biased moderation.
Unpaid volunteers are going to step over the line once in a while and that's OK as long as there's a review process (There's a really good one here).
All of that said, Blizzard could use the help nights and weekends at the very least even if it's little more than flagging a post and hiding it until someone else can have a look at it. Anyone that takes advantage of that sort of system sticks out pretty quickly.
Being funny is mostly just telling the truth about things.
Pft... only 72 hours?
I've been banned for a week just for saying "don't be a twat".
It's impossible to know how Blizzard really view their forums internally but there are plenty of examples of better-moderated-by-volunteer forums around. It's probably something to do with the legalities of how they grant access to forums based on paid subscriptions. I won't even pretend to guess what they do but Blizzard General Discussion forums are generally pretty terrible. My sense is that U.S. is worse the EU but there's plenty of bad crap to go around. Of course, that brings up Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap" so maybe it's just the nature of the thing.
Being funny is mostly just telling the truth about things.
Blizzard forums is like the plague for me, the amount of derp..man.
I also have no proof that Santa Claus is not real.Do you have any proff it is not? Seems to be countless people like my self that has never heard a replay from them
Don't ask me to prove a negative, it's not proper.
If we're going to talk about evidence for or against, the burden of proof traditionally lies with the person making the claim.
The person presenting the assumption.
You sound more angry than rational.I got shut done? Really? My account is not perma banned there I could go post there if I still played that piece of shit game
And my request was for "a post that got shut down despite being reasonal". I made no claim about your account or you getting "shut done".
Again: Agreeing with Blizzard is not fanboying, anymore than disagreeing with them is hating them.You do not just disagree you fanboy pretty hard. Your post history is not hidden here
Wrong.And all you do is call people conspiracy theorist who dare say something bad about bli$$ard or wow.
I do tend to disagree with people when they use anecdotal evidence and rumors and assumptions in their arguments about how Blizzard (you can't even write out their name without throwing in a comment about how they're greedy?) will do anything for money, despite the fact that they don't...
Proof that you don't always get shut down for being critical?Proff?
Comment about EU vs US:
Actually, "posting requirement". Not opionion. It's in the posting rules.Once again opinion not fact.
And as said, that's a 2 year old post, that no longer seems relevant. The threads no longer cap at 26 pages, and this would not negate the rules about not creating duplicate threads on a subject anyway. I really don't understand what your point is with this link.As said before http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2191101521 sticky at the very top and listed in the forum rules
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If you chose rock as a weapon, in order to beat a pair of scissors, don't start whining when you get pwn'd by a piece of paper.
Huh, they still auto cap on the wow forums at 26 (the mod can over ride it) but I seen it in action myself less than a month ago when trying to post on a thread.
(easy way to tell is the CRZ feedback threads, go to a older one and they stop at 26 and they are not locked but you can't post in them)
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Yeah is is also a person who keeps saying "the rules posted 2 years ago do not apply cause they are two years old"
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Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Gastrointestinal (GI) Motility (SCP-Comodig)
This study has been completed.
University Hospital, Rouen
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Guillaume GOURCEROL, University Hospital, Rouen
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 4, 2010
Last updated: February 6, 2012
Last verified: February 2012
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Parkinson's disease is characterized by extra-pyramidal symptoms as well as digestive involvement with gastrointestinal motility (GI) impairment. Deep brain stimulation has been recently developed as a successful treatment for extrapyramidal symptoms. In addition, preliminary reports suggest that this therapy might be successful to relieve GI symptoms as well. The aim of this study is therefore to assess the effect of deep brain stimulation on GI voluntary as well as involuntary motility.
|Parkinson's Disease
|Device: Deep brain stimulation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Voluntary and Involuntary Gastrointestinal Motility in Parkinson's Disease
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Parkinson disease
MedlinePlus related topics: Parkinson's DiseaseU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Guillaume GOURCEROL, University Hospital, Rouen:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Anal pressure [ Time Frame: 2 hours ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: ON
Stimulator switched ON
Device: Deep brain stimulation
Comparison ON vs OFF
Sham Comparator: OFF
Stimulator switched OFF
Device: Deep brain stimulation
Comparison ON vs OFF
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- patient over 18 yo
- patient with Parkinson's disease implanted for deep brain stimulation
- patient responders to deep brain stimulation (UPDRS improved by at least 40%)
- patient covered by the french health care system
- patient not taking anti-parkinsonian medication the day before evaluation
- French speaking
Exclusion Criteria:
- patient below 18 yo
- pregnancy
- Severe psychiatric or cognitive disorders
- diabetes mellitus
- morbid obesity
- compulsive eating disorders
- diffuse GI motility impairment (except Parkinson's disease)
- other evolutive neurologic disorders
- previous history of significant GI resection
- inability to swallow or defecate when asked
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Derrey S, Chastan N, Maltete D, Verin E, Dechelotte P, Lefaucheur R, Proust F, Freger P, Leroi AM, Weber J, Gourcerol G. Impact of deep brain stimulation on pharyngo-esophageal motility: a randomized cross-over study. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2015 Sep;27(9):1214-22. doi: 10.1111/nmo.12607. Epub 2015 Jun 5.
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Keywords provided by Guillaume GOURCEROL, University Hospital, Rouen:
Parkinson's disease
deep brain stimulation
GI motility
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Parkinson Disease
Parkinsonian Disorders
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases
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BATTLE CREEK (AP) -- A Battle Creek man has been charged with killing a 4-year-old boy, five years after the case against him was dismissed.
Adam Markos was arrested Tuesday and taken to the Calhoun County jail.
The Battle Creek Enquirer (http://bcene.ws/17i4ULp ) reports the 30-year-old Markos is to be arraigned Wednesday on charges of open murder and felony child abuse in the 2007 death of 4-year-old Dominic Munoz.
Prosecutor David Gilbert says his office gave the case another look and decided to bring charges. Gilbert says he doesn't "know why they dismissed it the last time."
Dominic died from head injuries police said occurred a week earlier. He was the son of Markos' girlfriend.
J. Thomas Schaeffer, the defense attorney at the time, says he has "no clue" why charges were brought against Markos.


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Filled with exclusive products and books tied to the ongoing publishing partnership between the premier independent comics publisher and the video game giant, the Dark Horse-BioWare Store will include the entire Mass Effect product line to date, including all trades, patches, playing cards and art books.
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Available only at SDCC, Dark Horse is offering fans three, exclusive limited-edition lithograph prints (pictured in the gallery below), signed or unsigned by the creative teams. BioWare staff will be in attendance at the booth to answer questions for fans young and old.
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For a little over two quarters, Wisconsin looked like the team everyone expected them to be at the start of the season. But then Taylor Martinez and the Nebraska offense went to work, and edged the Badgers for a 30-27 win.
Wisconsin started fast, jumping out to a 14-0 lead, courtesy of two Montee Ball touchdown runs, with 7:20 left in the first quarter. A third touchdown run by Ball early in the third quarter gave Wisconsin a 27-10 lead.
From there, Martinez took over. The Nebraska quarterback led touchdown drives of 77 and 75 yards respectively, and a field goal at the end of the quarter evened the game at 27.
Nebraska got the game-winning score on Brett Maher's 41 yard field goal with 9:41 to go. The Cornhuskers' defense then came through. On a fourth-and-1 play at the Wisconsin 49 with 1:26 left in the game, Ball fumbled and Nebraska recovered.
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Martinez finished with 182 passing yards and two touchdowns. He also led the Cornhuskers in rushing with 100 yards and a touchdown. The three-headed rushing attack of Martinez, Rex Burkhead and Ameer Abdullah combined for 252 yards.
Joel Stave played most of the game at quarterback for Wisconsin (212 passing yards, one touchdown) but on the Badgers' final drive, head coach Bret Bielema turned to former starter Danny O'Brien.
Ball finished with 95 rushing yards, three touchdowns and a costly fumble for Wisconsin.
Wisconsin hosts Illinois next week, while Nebraska travels to Columbus to play Ohio State. The Badgers have two losses in September for the first time since 2001.
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In August 2011, the Budget Control Act was signed into law and sequestration quickly became a buzzword in Washington. Facing the prospect of $500 billion in defense cuts over the next decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) has spent the past two years moving through the classic five stages of grief.
■Denial. Senior defense officials refused to believe that budget cuts mandated by law would ever materialize, and thus chose not to prepare for them.
■Anger. Once the bipartisan "super committee" failed to agree on deficit reductions, DoD officials voiced their frustration with political leaders who were unable or unwilling to compromise.
■Bargaining. Rather than implementing sequestration budget cuts evenly over the 10-year period and across all accounts as required by the Budget Control Act, DoD pleaded for greater flexibility to limit the damage.
■Depression. With sequestration taking effect March 1, officials recalled the hollow forces of the 1970s and '90s to warn of the possible consequences.
■ Acceptance. The Strategic Choices and Management Review ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel considered potential changes to US military capabilities under several budget scenarios, including the mandated $500 billion reduction.
This review could be a step in the right direction. While the consequences of sequestration may be severe, there is little to be gained by avoiding difficult strategic choices. Hope, as the saying goes, is not a strategy. The question, then, is how will the Pentagon choose to adapt? Will it rely on savings from "efficiencies" that may not materialize and cut personnel uniformly across the services, an option that would lead to a US military that is simply a smaller version of the current force? Or will the Pentagon set clear priorities and use sequestration as an opportunity to rebalance its capabilities for future challenges?
There is an emerging consensus that DoD must implement major changes, regardless of the size of future budget cuts, and that Congress and the White House should set politics aside and push for change if the Pentagon will not.
Defense analysts from multiple Washington think tanks have called for pursuing another round of base closures, reducing the size of DoD's civilian workforce and undertaking serious compensation reform for military personnel to rein in the fastest-growing part of the defense budget.
Yet these measures alone won't achieve the savings required by law or help the Pentagon avoid the worst-case outcome: that the confluence of politics, interservice competition and a lack of foresight lead to a military that is not just smaller, but also ill-suited for likely security challenges.
Despite all the attention paid to sequestration, the strategic environment is in flux as well. For example, China is developing advanced capabilities such as ballistic and cruise missiles, submarines, and anti-satellite and cyberwarfare systems that could upend the balance of power in East Asia. Nuclear proliferation represents a growing danger, with an unpredictable North Korea threatening its neighbors and an unfriendly Iran expanding its nuclear infrastructure.
Thanks to the support of sponsors such as Iran, non-state actors are acquiring increasingly sophisticated weapons that could further destabilize strategically important regions like the Middle East.
Given these challenges, now is the time for the Pentagon to make smart choices that will preserve the US' ability to project military power abroad. Identifying DoD's new "crown jewel" capabilities that should be shielded from budget cuts or even receive additional resources would be a start.
These include cyber and electronic warfare systems to disrupt enemy forces; undersea warfare platforms that are more survivable and versatile than surface combatants; stealthy, long-range surveillance and strike aircraft to penetrate contested airspace; special operations forces to conduct missions in sensitive areas; directed-energy weapons to provide cost-effective defenses against air and missile attacks; and a modernized nuclear force, which remains the ultimate deterrent for the US and its allies.
The hard truth, then, is that the Pentagon may need to make larger-than-anticipated cuts in some areas to invest in future capabilities. For example, armored forces that were designed to fight tank armies that no longer exist, surface warships to defeat a Soviet blue-water threat and aging fighter jets may have to be reduced. In fact, cutting $500 billion over the next decade while making room for investments in crown jewel capabilities may require sharp cuts in military and civilian personnel and even near-term readiness.
During a recent multi-think tank exercise organized by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, players found that the only way to cut $500 billion from DoD's budget and simultaneously rebalance the military for future challenges was to cut funding in all of these areas.
In the end, the Pentagon is likely facing a stark choice between preserving near-term readiness and modernizing for the future. The wrong choice will leave America with a military that is prepared for fading threats. The right choice requires accepting risk now, developing a force that will be more ready in the future and avoiding another cycle of grief down the road.


text: Show Hide image Politics 19 December 2012 Jim Al-Khalili: "Indoctrination from any perspective, in any point of view, has to be wrong" The new president of the British Humanist Association explains his views on the "broad church". Sign up for our weekly email * You've just been appointed president of the British Humanist Association. What defines your idea of humanism? A humanist is someone who doesn't believe in the need for a supernatural being to tell us how to lead our lives. But humanism is a very broad "church". I don't feel I need to "put right" people who have religious faith. For instance, my mother is a very devout Christian. I would never think it worthwhile or morally right to tell her what she believes is wrong, maybe because I know she's not going to say, "Oh, yes, of course there's no God. How could I have been so stupid all this time?" For me, humanism is about making sure that we live in a secular society in which you are free to believe but that doesn't impinge on the way society is run. Faith schools are something I've been very passionately against for many, many years. More important is to get across to those with a religious faith that they're wrong about this arrogant attitude that you need God to be good, that you need religious faith to provide the moral compass. When someone says, "Why can't we have faith schools?" what is your reply? Even at a benign level, faith schools suggest: "You are part of our group and this is the way we think and we are right and the others are wrong." By definition, an education is to teach children to think for themselves and to make up their own mind about their world-view – and I think that [faith schools] stop them. How would you persuade those who want faith schools that they're wrong? I think the connection between culture and religion, particularly for, say, Muslims or Jews, is very powerful and they can't see that there is another perspective. My worry is that when we argue, "You shouldn't be indoctrinating your children," they'll say: "Humanists or atheists are doing exactly the same thing. You are trying to indoctrinate children in this idea that there is no God." So indoctrination from any perspective, in any point of view, has to be wrong. What about your educational background? You were educated in Iraq. I went to an Arabic-speaking school, because my father's a Muslim – although he's really an agnostic Muslim. Iraq is a pretty secular society. Well, it was in the 1960s and 1970s. I never had to sit and memorise stories from the Quran or anything like that. But back home, I grew up thinking, "My father's a Muslim and my mother's a Christian. They both believe in the same God and Allah is just Arabic for God." I think I was probably about 13 when I decided they can't both be right and therefore they're both wrong. Some philosophers dismiss humanism, arguing it suggests human beings are superior to other animals, rather than just another beast. From an evolutionary perspective, we are just another member of the animal kingdom but, for me, humanism does celebrate those attributes that we have evolved, to be part of society. What defines humanism is things like empathy and compassion and having a conscience. It's not magical; it's something that has arisen from the complexities of evolution. Some say that contemporary physics has stepped over the line from hard science to dealing with philosophical concepts. Theoretical physics in the past hundred years has sometimes bordered on metaphysics or philosophy, especially when we come up with ideas that we can't see a way of testing experimentally. For me, science is empirical – it is about gathering evidence. It's debatable whether something like superstring theory, which is at the forefront of theoretical physics, is proper science because we still haven't designed an experiment to test it. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, is a theory that we've tested again and again. We wouldn't have most of the technologies of the modern world if it wasn't for quantum mechanics. The difference between when a scientist says, "I believe this is how nature works," and when someone with religious faith says, "I believe that God wants this," is that we look for scientific evidence, empirical evidence, testability and reproducibility to back up what we're saying, whereas in faith you don't need them. What still perplexes you as a physicist? I remember you were very confident that neutrinos were not travelling faster than light, despite experimental evidence from Italy which appeared to show just that. I took my kids, when they were young, to a museum and there was a big pendulum hanging off the roof. You could hold it close to your nose and, being very careful not to give it a push, just let it go. And it swings. Don't flinch when it comes back to you. You could break your nose if you move or if you've given it a push. But if you're confident you haven't given it a push, [you're fine]. I have faith, if that's the right word to use, in the laws of nature that tell me it will swing less each time, not more. I felt the same about the neutrino. All my training and all the evidence that I've learned is out there, confirming nothing goes faster than the speed of light. Why is the word "spiritual" misused to mean something that inspires wonder? It's another word, like "faith". Why should they hijack the word "spiritual"? Why can't we have the word "spiritual" to imply something mysterious? "Mystical", there's another word. [With] a lot of these words people suggest that you must be religious, you must be spiritual, in order to use them. I would very strongly fight to broaden things out so that we can use them as well and not feel as though we have to defend and define those words. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist and broadcaster. For details of the British Humanist Association, visit: humanism.org.uk Robin Ince is a writer and comedian. With Brian Cox, he guest edited the 2012 Christmas double issue of the New Statesman. He's on Twitter as @RobinInce. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 24 December 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Brian Cox and Robin Ince guest edit More


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THE most important day of a Wirral bride's life has been placed in jeopardy after her choice of wedding venue closed without notice.
The popular Grange Country Club in Thornton Hough ceased trading on Sunday after being sold to a third party.
It is understood that staff were told that they were out of a job last week, with just receptionists now left at the club to deal with calls from distressed brides and grooms-to-be.
Jennifer McCombs, from Saughall Massie, is just one of dozens of brides left at the altar after the closure.
The 26-year-old, who is due to marry partner Richard Flanigan in August next year, is now frantically trying to rearrange their special day.
She told the Globe: "I am by no means the worst off as my wedding is on August 1 next year but I am going to lose more than £1,000 and they are doing nothing about it."
Deposits will be fully refunded by the Grange but mother-of-one Jennifer says this is not good enough.
"Apparently they phoned me to tell me but I have got no record of a call on my phone for them – it was my partner's friend who text us asking what's going on. We didn't know anything about it until then," said the primary school teacher.
"I rang the Grange and they offered me a refund for what I had paid for the venue but I have rang every other wedding venue on the Wirral and I can't get the same date.
"I am going to lose my deposit on save the date cards, invitations, photographer, they have already been booked."
Jennifer added: "I am set to lose over £1,000 but I'm not in the worse situation – there are going to be weddings booked for this year.
"But I have got a new baby and we're moving house next week – that money is something I can't afford to lose.
"It is going to cost me three or four times as much for a different venue but nowhere has got my date anyway but I'm a primary school teacher so the summer holidays is the only time I can get married.
"We have got family coming over from Australia – thankfully they haven't booked their flights yet but all of my family live over the water in Liverpool and we have booked the Merebrook for them to stay in.
"We're going to have to pretty much start from scratch."
Fellow bride-to-be Rachel Mace, from Prenton - is also in the same position as Jennifer, with her wedding to fiancé Mark Murphy due to take place at The Grange on May 23.
The 26-year-old teacher told the Globe: "You feel dreadful for the people all out of jobs and you feel for the people getting married this year - at least we have got time to put it right but I just pray that they do as they said and send out the cheque for the deposit this week.
"It's £600, it's not the kind of money to be thrown about. I'm kicking myself as I've been saying for months I should get wedding insurance but I thought I had plenty of time.
"You don't expect something like this to happen at this point, you think closer the time things might not turn up, but not this."
Paula Blease, from Bromborough, was due to marry fiancé Martin Drury at The Grange on March 28 – the same day Martin celebrates his 50th birthday.
"I was heartbroken, I was absolutely devastated when I found out," said singer Paula.
"You book your cars and everything. We now have to go back and go through everything again with the registrar – they hadn't even told the registry office that they had closed."
Paula added: "You chose your venue, your date and you're exciting and then bang, we find out on Facebook that it's closing."
Staff at the Grange are currently in the process of ringing customers to inform them of the closure and will be offering full refunds.
"We closed on Sunday, July 27 – the country club has been sold but I do not have any information on who to," said one of the remaining staff members.
"We are not reneging of payments and everybody will get a refund on their deposit. Anything other than that needs to be put into writing and we will be dealing with that as soon as we get them."
When asked what would happen to those due to get married in the coming weeks, the staff member added: "We are arranging all of that."
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Caprese Salad with Roasted Tomatoes and Basil was a wonderful start to the meal.
We also loved the roasted olives, with a touch of rosemary.
Caputos by Night (and Caputo's Market and Deli)
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Vintage Mixer also wrote about Caputos by Night.
Matt Caputo invited me to dinner at Caputos and paid for my meal. I don't really write restaurant "reviews" but once in a while I talk about restaurants in Salt Lake and Restaurants in other cities where I've had great meals, but only if it's a meal I would have happily paid for myself.


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altenbach wrote:
Are you aware that you posted in (= hijacked) a thread about "Advanced LabVIEW sessions at NI week 2009", which seems completely unrelated to your post. Please start a new thread instead to keep things logically organized.
Since your gripe is about LabVIEW, the LabVIEW forum might be more suitable. The breakpoint is our social forum.
Knight of NI,
Sorry, I did ramble on a wee bit.
However, my post here to the NI week 2009 advanced LabVIEW sessions, I believe, is in fact, highly relevant. What I have proposed is that National Instruments spend more time on the Quality of LabVIEW with special attention to the offline network isolated activation process. Whats the point in all this supposed happy times at NI Week if when you get home, you have to spend all your time keeping your LabVIEW activated. Why should all your projects using LabVIEW suddenly come to a screetching halt simply because you have added a National Instrument card to your PXI system. You would think that NI would be pleased that we have bought and used one of their hardware products. But adding NI hardware to an existing computer should not blow away your LabVIEW activation.
So what I am suggesting is that National Instruments should skip NI Week 2009 and work out a better reasonable way to perform offline network isolated activations. Adding or subtracting NI hardware should not break your LabVIEW activation. It is especially the National Instruments software developers that should keep focused on Quality of the current 8.6 version. Lets have them fix the bugs current version. Lets have them fix the installation compatibility problems between LabVIEW and other NI products before we move on. We don't need 8.7 or 9.0 until we have a usable 8.6.
Yes, lets all skip NI Week 2009 and focus on LabVIEW quality and a reasonable offline network isolated activation process. Lets not all pretend that all is well with NI and LV. I am sure there are others that have had experienced LV incompatibility and activation problems.
Oh my goodness, I have rambled on again.......
Sorry, again from Kevin.
Note: I currently have 7 copies of LV Dev Suite with tons of toolkits and modules all on current software support and all on isolated networks. So I have been suffering quite a bit.
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So it had nothing to do with the link after all. No woner I could not find them.
So that my cents worth.
What do the rest of your think?
Ben, as usual, you rock. Thanks for the input.
If I hear good feedback on those new sessions then YOU are the rocker.
Summarizing my desires for all of those seesions.
No sales pitch.
Feed us so full of info we are dizzy at the end of the day (without going on the beer crawl).
Ben wrote:
If I hear good feedback on those new sessions then YOU are the rocker.
Summarizing my desires for all of those seesions.
No sales pitch.
Feed us so full of info we are dizzy at the end of the day (without going on the beer crawl).
Yes Ben,
Lets hope NI will skip the marketing and sales pitches in the advanced sessions.
If you make it to the advanced sessions, then you don't require any time
spent on sales pitches or marketing or NI Company history lessons.
subliminal: I could save the world if I could put a tab inside a cluster.
You might want to skip session 5. It looks like a marketing session for some of the new toolkits. I am sure they will show everybody how to use the tools, but that will probably be about it.
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You might want to skip session 5. It looks like a marketing session for some of the new toolkits. I am sure they will show everybody how to use the tools, but that will probably be about it.
I am going to miss this NI Week this year but my feedback is for the benefit of those that do attend.
Here is another way of thinking about the session content.
I have not had experience with local user groups for LV but I have read about and heard about them. NI will sponsor user group meeting and if nobody local wnat to do a presentation the local NI rep will do one. These are usually pre-wrritein presentations that came down from corporate and have some knowledge content but in the end are sales presentations. Sometimes they even go as far as talking about the pricing!
If the local group is active they may have individuals that will provide the entertainment and do their own presentations. Although these can vary in quality I have heard about good ones that where highly praised.
So what attendees of NI Week should experience in these advanced seminars is to come out of the sesion asking themselves "Was that an NI Seminar?!"
With sesions like those to call apon the local NI reps would be able to do presentations that are high value non-sales pitches so.... these presentations may also help with LabVIEW user groups.
And of course people that will be out there slinging wires durring NI week will be able to down load the presentations and share in the fun!
How about Best Practices for Large Scale Distributed Systems. There are a ton of subtle concepts regarding the use and deployment of shared variables
for distributed systems. Is it better to use NSV's or the Systems Group concept of the Current Value Table. Large distributed systems need to be
managed from external databases or spreadsheets that define channel attributes, system constants, etc. what are some best practices to manage this information
and tools to deploy to RT targets. What about interprocess communications RT<->RT or RT<->PC. What is the future roadmap for the scan engine technology?
- New Advanced Features in LabVIEW Object Oriented Programming
As neat as this always sounds, I still haven't had to time to wrap my head around OOP for the types of LabVIEW software projects that I am always working on. This may not be advanced for this area, but I'd like to see examples that actually use LabVIEW the way I do, i.e., acquiring and processing dynamic signals, and presenting results.
- Enhanced Data Visualization in LabVIEW
Excellent topic. I'd like to see some time spent on usage of non-NI controls and indicators that are open source (ZedGraph, GraphVIZ) in addition to the relatively new work with 3D models.
- Multicore Design Patterns in LabVIEW
Some focus an efficient methods of scaling the processing for the number of available cores. It's one thing to design for 4 processors, it's another to detect them, and spread out the load on the fly.
- LabVIEW Team Oriented Development - From Requirements to Deployment
Use of a source code control system (like SVN) and best practices for when to commit (especially when the code is just recompiled without other changes..).
- Best Practices for Memory Management and Optimization of LabVIEW Code
Point by point processing for minimum memory foot print and scalability; efficient use of disks for storage and access. Single element queues?
C. Minnella wrote:
- Multicore Design Patterns in LabVIEW
Some focus an efficient methods of scaling the processing for the number of available cores. It's one thing to design for 4 processors, it's another to detect them, and spread out the load on the fly.
The Advanced error handling session is pre-discussed here on LAVA.


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De La Rosa proving to be valuable cog in Angels 'pen
OAKLAND -- Where would the Angels' bullpen be without Dane De La Rosa?
It's a question nobody expected to be asking heading into the season. But nearly one full month in, with six arms already called up from the Minors and only three members of the Opening Day 'pen currently available as relievers, De La Rosa has provided a big lift to a relief corps that has been decimated by injuries at a time when it's had to take on a big workload.
De La Rosa, the 6-foot-7 right-hander acquired from the Rays for Steven Geltz in late March, has appeared in eight of the Angels' last 12 games heading into Monday, giving up only two runs in eight innings while pitching effectively in tight situations. If he would have appeared Sunday -- a game in which he warmed up in the bullpen -- it would have marked three straight games, and six of the past eight.
"It's a great opportunity," the 30-year-old De La Rosa said before a rare hiccup in Monday's eighth inning, which saw him give up a walk and a two-run single. "It's nothing I'm not used to. I've been doing this for pretty much the last three years in Triple-A and Double-A. I don't mind it at all. It's helping us out, so it's all good."
De La Rosa, a 24th-round Draft pick by the Yankees in 2002, racked up only 15 Major League appearances with the Rays the previous two years, getting charged with 15 runs in 12 1/3 innings. But he racked up 155 appearances in the Minors from 2010-12, posting a 2.65 ERA in 214 innings.
Now, with Sean Burnett (left forearm irritation), Kevin Jepsen (right shoulder strain) and Mark Lowe (neck strain) on the disabled list and Garrett Richards in the rotation, he's become the No. 2 right-hander in the Angels' bullpen behind closer Ernesto Frieri.
"It has to be somebody," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We need the arms down there to hold leads, and right now Dane is really making a statement that he belongs in the big leagues."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.