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Former Lipscomb women's basketball standout Jenna Bartsokas made a visit to campus this week. In May she completed her requirements for a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. After passing her board exams she is taking a few weeks off before starting a residency in Greenville, South Carolina. Bartsokas received a B.S. degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Lipscomb in 2011. As a player she excelled on the court earning Atlantic Sun Female Athlete of the Year as a senior. As a four-year starter she finished as Lipscomb's second all-time scorer in the NCAA Division I era with 1, 411 points (11.9 per game) and second in career assists with 295. She finished with a 3.95 overall GPA. She was honored during the 2013-2014 basketball season as a "Lipscomb Legend". During her time on campus she talked with lipscombsports.com.
What years did you play basketball at Lipscomb? Who were your coaches?
"I played from 2007-2011. My coach was Frank Bennett. My assistant coaches were Billy Snell, Katie Beth Allen, Lynsie Blau and Krystle Horton."
You attended Independence High School in Franklin, Tennessee. Why did you choose to attend Lipscomb?
"I wanted to play basketball. That is what made me look at Lipscomb initially. But when I came here for a visit and met the players and the coaches I really felt at home. It was a feeling I couldn't ignore.
"The Christian atmosphere of the school was important. I was around players and coaches whose morals lined up with mine. I also knew the academics were strong here.
"When doors closed, Lipscomb's door stayed open. I just went to where I felt led. It was where I found myself at the end of the process. I wouldn't change it for the world."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"Any time we beat Belmont was a favorite memory. I think we beat them more times than they beat us while I was here. We played a really close game with Belmont at our place. We played before a men's game, so late in the game we had a good crowd. Any time we could win in front of a good crowd was very rewarding. It was a way to give back to all the fans and all the people that supported us."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"I can't just single our one person.
"Obviously, Coach Bennett and all of the other coaches I had when I was here definitely supported me. They helped keep the love of basketball in me throughout my time here. A lot of people get burned out and are just going through the motions at the end. They always made me feel very comfortable as a player.
"Coach Bennett just truly cares about his players. In his eyes we weren't just basketball players. He wanted to see us grow in other areas of life. I think he treated us like he treated his own kids. I could have had a coach that was a screamer and a yeller who belittled people. But that was not coach Bennett at all. I am thankful for that.
"I would not have met Beth and Zac Stark if I had not come to Lipscomb to play basketball. They also helped me grow as a player here with the amount of time they poured into me. They allowed me to come and help them with their AAU girls (15-16) team. I got to see a different way of coaching and teaching the game.
"How I met them was so random. Beth had visited school my freshman year. She had her son, Nash, with her in his stroller. We started talking. I told her if she ever needed to babysitter to call me up and she did. I babysat for them a couple of times.
"They would come to our games. They were diehard Lipscomb fans. Win or lose they were there supporting us. They would give me pointers.
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"I am still great friends with a lot of the girls I lived with here - Kate Spellman, Lacey Cross, Amy Stagliano and Emma Scanlon. I lived with them in apartment. Just hanging out with them and not really doing anything were my favorite times. I really did find life-long friends here. I still keep in touch with some of the people I graduated with."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"I grew more as a person than I would ever imagined in my four years here. I think that had a lot to do with being on a team and being so close to the girls and dealing with all of the ups and downs that go with being a part of a team.
"I grew in my faith here. That was due in part to my coaches and my professors…just the people I was surrounded by here. It is very unique. I don't think I would find as many people like me at another university.
"I learned that sports did not define me which was huge. It helped me when I left basketball after my senior year. I was more proud of being identified as a strong Christian and good person. That is something that was really instilled in me here."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"I would have to say Kent Johnson and Ruth Henry in the exercise science department.
"Ruth Henry was so much fun in class. And she would have us over to her house and cook for us each year. We would walk right over to her house right across from Lipscomb. She taught me more about yoga and step aerobics than I ever thought I would know.
"Dr. Johnson really pushed me in the classroom. He never really let me feel like I was in my comfort zone in his classes. After finishing physical therapy school I appreciate him even more. The exercise science department here is very strong and prepares you well for physical therapy school."
Where do you live now?
"I am moving to Greenville, South Carolina. I went to Walsh University, a Catholic school in North Canton, Ohio, the past three years.
"Going into my senior year at Lipscomb I visited the school for an open house. I fell in love with it. I thought I didn't want to do the small school thing again, but the past three years have been amazing. The school is very similar to Lipscomb. I couldn't ignore the feeling of how perfect it was for me. I loved it."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"I have accepted an orthopedic residency in physical therapy at Proaxis in Greenville. I will be working in an out-patient orthopedic clinic treating general aches and pains of adults and people who have had total knee or hip replacements or shoulder surgeries."
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Big inning backs solid Buchholz as Boston hangs on
TORONTO -- The Red Sox bent, but they didn't break.
Entering the eighth with a commanding four-run lead, Boston allowed the Blue Jays to claw back, score three runs, and put the potential game-winning run on first base in the ninth before narrowly escaping the afternoon contest with a victory.View Full Game Coverage
TORONTO -- The Red Sox bent, but they didn't break.
Entering the eighth with a commanding four-run lead, Boston allowed the Blue Jays to claw back, score three runs, and put the potential game-winning run on first base in the ninth before narrowly escaping the afternoon contest with a victory.View Full Game Coverage
Koji Uehara recorded a four-out save, A.J. Pierzynski and Will Middlebrooks hit back-to-back homers as part of a six-run third inning and the Red Sox hung on to beat the Blue Jays, 7-6, at Rogers Centre on Saturday.
"We are hard workers and we are going to grind things out," said Middlebrooks, who has three hits and three RBIs in two games since returning from the disabled list. "It's not always going to go our way ... a couple innings were rough, but we really have a good group."
With the Red Sox leading, 7-3, entering the eighth, Boston's bullpen let the Blue Jays back into the contest.
Juan Francisco hit a solo homer -- his second in as many days -- off Red Sox reliever Junichi Tazawa to begin the frame and make it a 7-4 game. It was the seventh homer Tazawa has surrendered to the Blue Jays since the start of the 2013 season -- compared to three against every other team -- and bumped his career ERA to 11.88 vs. Toronto.
Tazawa allowed another run after the Francisco homer and then Chris Capuano loaded the bases with a walk before the Red Sox were forced to turn to their closer with two outs. Uehara retired the red-hot Melky Cabrera, but the Blue Jays weren't done just yet.
Jose Bautista opened up the ninth with a solo homer, his team-leading seventh of the season, to pull the Blue Jays to within one run. Singles by Dioner Navarro and Brett Lawrie put two on for Edwin Encarnacion, but the slugger lined out to center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. for the final out of the game.
"[Uehara] had just enough to hang on for the four-out save today," Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
The long ball Uehara surrendered was the first run he has allowed this season and the first homer he has given up since June 30 of last season, which was also a ninth-inning blast by Bautista. Uehara can thank Bradley Jr., who has made a number of difficult catches over the first two games of the series, for coming up with the ball and allowing the closer to record his fifth save of the season.
"[Bradley Jr.] is playing very good defense in center field, and today there was no bigger out than the final one," Farrell said.
Before the late-inning suspense, the Red Sox appeared to be on their way to a comfortable victory.
A night after scoring a season-high eight runs and handing Mark Buehrle his first loss of the season, Boston was back to clobbering Toronto pitching.
The Red Sox, who found themselves in an early 3-0 hole, responded with a rally of their own against Blue Jays starter Brandon Morrow.
Morrow managed to keep the Red Sox off the board through two innings despite walking four batters, but the free passes, which continued into the third, eventually caught up to him. With two outs in the third, Morrow walked four consecutive batters to bring in a run, leading to his quick exit. He lasted 2 2/3 innings and issued a career-high eight walks.
"It's embarrassing to not be able to command your fastball," said Morrow, whose ERA sits at 6.04 after five starts. "That's the number one thing you have to do, is command the fastball, to be successful."
Things weren't much better for his replacement, Chad Jenkins, either.
Jenkins, making his first appearance of the season after being recalled from Triple-A Buffalo on Friday night, allowed a grand slam to Pierzynski on the second pitch he threw. Pierzynski's eighth career grand slam -- the first by a Red Sox player this season -- gave Boston a 5-3 lead.
"A.J. can be streaky at the plate and he's seeing more pitches right now," Farrell said. "You ride the wave a little bit while he is swinging the bat well, and he has done a good job behind the plate."
Middlebrooks followed Pierzynski by hitting a solo homer, his second of the year, to left-center field to help the Red Sox put six on the board in the third -- the most runs they have scored in an inning this season. It marked the second time the Red Sox have hit back-to-back homers in 2014.
Mike Carp and Grady Sizemore hit back-to-back one-out doubles in the fifth to extend Boston's lead to 7-3.
Buchholz, meanwhile, settled in after allowing three first-inning runs. Although he wasn't at his sharpest, Buchholz battled out of some tough spots and kept the Blue Jays off the board over his next six innings of work to earn his first victory of the season.
"I was too amped up for the start today at the beginning," Buchholz said. "Everything was up and I wasn't finishing that many pitches."
Buchholz said that after watching video of previous outings, he tried to speed up his delivery for the Toronto start because he felt it had been too slow. That ended up causing him further problems with his delivery when it became too quick, but he was able to adjust and find a happy medium for the remainder of the game, he said.
The right-hander, who was tagged for six runs in his last start, went seven innings, walked three and punched out three to help the Red Sox win their second game in a row.
Boston will attempt to earn its first sweep of the season, and extend its winning-streak to a season-high three games, in Sunday's series finale with ace Jon Lester on the hill.
Chris Toman is a contributor to MLB.com.


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The earlier probe, which was launched by Italian financial police in 2007, found that Google had developed a system to transfer profits from its Italian operations to Ireland so it could benefit from a more favorable tax regime.
The investigation is the Internet search giant's latest entanglement with European tax authorities, following problems in France and Britain over its Irish strategy.
In Italy, investigations of the years 2002-2006 found that Google had failed to declare at least 240 million euros ($310 million) of income to authorities and owed more than 96 million euros in sales tax, according to the ministry's response to questions in parliament.
It said police had launched a new probe on Monday to check the company was meeting its fiscal obligations in Italy.
Google said in a statement that it complies with tax law in every country in which it operates.
"We are confident we comply with Italian law," a spokeswoman said, adding the firm would cooperate with authorities and answer any questions for the investigation.
Italian officials have stepped up tax surveillance and collection efforts in recent months as part of government efforts to bring Italy's huge public debt under control.
Police have also been assessing the practices of other multinational online businesses who are managing to shift profits made in Italy into countries where they can pay less tax, the ministry said.
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Assaf >>>This brings us back to the fact that while the protocol assures no message loss it does not guarantee that a message will be processed<<< This is why in LEVEL 1 - Simple Reliable Messaging I said ... >>>The minimum semantic of the acknowledgement message is that the original message has been received and persisted and therefore, barring catastrophes, it should not be lost and therefore will be processed.<<< TCP/IP does not give you this. David True. But TCP/IP delivers the message to the application for immediate processing, so there is no need for persistence. If you crash upon receipt of the message you will not produce a reply, indicating the message was not processed. The need to process the message as it is received created a problem when processing is extensive or best done independently of the receipt, hence the benefit of using asynchronous messaging. We need to qualify that "processing" in this case means delivery to the application that is using the RM, so the message is not lost after an ack is sent (does not disappear and is not garbled). The RM does not actually need to persist the message if it can deliver the message to the application in a way that would assure the message could get processed (e.g. the message is delivered immediately and the application persists it). But that's just another way in which the RM guarantees persistence of the message. The fact that a message is persisted does not mean the application will be able to process it, it only means the message would not be lost after an ack has been sent, so the application will always receive it for processing. arkin -----Original Message----- From: Assaf Arkin [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:22 PM To: Ricky Ho; email@example.com Subject: RE: Reliable Messaging - Summary of Threads Although TCP does not care about the message, it still works very well at the message level for two reasons: 1. You specify the message size, that way you know exactly how many bytes (or packets) you expect to receive and you don't finish until you receive all of them. 2. The TCP stack will tell you if the connection goes down even if it just managed to deliver the last packet. In the application you will unknowingly block until the TCP stack can determine the delivery status of the last message. In some cases you cannot tell what the message size is (this happens a lot for HTML pages). In this case the Web server tells you the message has ended by closing the connection, but it can detect when the client gets disconnected before receiving the entire message. So the server does not experience message loss. Of course, this does not mean the the client got the message. The connection could be terminate before the server finishes sending it, or the client could just die after receiving the last packet, having received the entire message and losing it by crashing. This brings us back to the fact that while the protocol assures no message loss it does not guarantee that a message will be processed. Message loss means that the sender cannot tell whether the message was received or not, if the message is received and then lost or the client cannot receive the entire message that is a different problem. arkin -----Original Message----- From: Ricky Ho [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:09 PM To: Assaf Arkin; email@example.com Subject: RE: Reliable Messaging - Summary of Threads What you say is correct ! But only at the TCP packet level, not the message level. To some degree, I feel our previous RM handshaking discussion is re-implementing the TCP handshaking at the message level Rgds, Ricky At 11:58 AM 12/14/2002 -0800, Assaf Arkin wrote: Ricky, TCP takes care of that. IP is a basic packet routing protocol that sends individual packets from one machine to another. IP has message loss. A message may not arrive at its destination. At the IP level the sender does not know whether the message has arrived, and the received doesn't know a message was sent, so there's no corrective action that will be taken. TCP is an elaborate protocol on top of IP that provides, connection-based messaging. TCP uses IP which means packets sent from A to B may be lost, may be received out of order, and may be received multiple times. TCP does the ordering of the packets, retransmission, acks, etc. So it goes something along these lines (not exactly, but it's been a while since I read the TCP spec): Node A opens connection to Node B. Node A starts sending a message to Node B. Node A identifies each packet by its order in the message. Node A identifiers the last packet. If Node B does not receive a packet it asks for retransmission. If Node B does receive the packet it lets Node A know (this is only critical for the last packet) Keep in mind that Node A and Node B keep communicating with each other all the time, sending "is alive" messages back and forth to determine if the connection is still open. So even if there's no application traffic between A and B, there's a lot of chatter going over the wire. If A doesn't hear from B after a while, then A assumes the connection is down (and vice versa). The TCP/IP stack can use the negative acks (retransmit request) in combination with the is-alive chatter (positive acks) to tell the application whether the message has been received or not. arkin Arkin, can you elaborate your point that "using a sync transport protocol, there will be no possibility of message loss" ?? here is an example. Node A sends a message to node B using a sync transport protocol HTTP POST A open a TCP connection to B successfully. A send a stream of request data (in the HTTP format) to B. Suddenly, the TCP connection drops. How does A know if B has received the request message or not ? Best regards, Ricky At 08:03 PM 12/13/2002 -0800, Assaf Arkin wrote: The two army problem is concerned with the possibility of message loss. Message loss could occur when you are using an asynchronous transport protocol, though in most literature the term would be medium, where protocol is a more generic term that would even cover a choreography. Although you can have an asynchronous API for performing an operation, that API is between you and a messaging engine and typically you would use in-process calls or some synchronous transport, so there's no possibility of message loss. You can tell without a doubt whether the messaging engine is going to send the message or not. Even if the operation you are doing is asynchronous, you can use a synchronous protocol such as HTTP POST to deliver the message in which case there is no possibility for message loss. But you can also use an asynchronous protocol such as SMTP or UDP, in which case the message could be lost on the way to its definition. Lost has a loose definition, a message that gets garbled, delayed or routed to the wrong place is considered lost. Addressing message loss is therefore a problem of the protocol you use and not the operation you perform. So in my opinion that is outside the scope of WSDL abstract operation definition, but in the scope of specific protocol bindings, an it would definitely help if the protocol layer (XMLP) could address that relieving us of the need to define ack operations. arkin -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com]On Behalf Of Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:28 PM To: Assaf Arkin; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: Reliable Messaging - Summary of Threads Thanks for the support. One thing this note reminded me of -- I have seen a number of different definitions of "synchronous" floating around this group. In fact, if my memory serves, there are three major ones. One concentrates on the idea that a call "blocks" if it is synchronous, another has a complicated logic that I cannot recall and the third (contained in one of the references on the two army problem) concentrates on the length of time it takes for a message to arrive. The formality of all of these definitions indicates to me that all have had considerable thought put into them and that all are, in their context, "correct". They are, however, also different. -----Original Message----- From: Assaf Arkin [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:27 PM To: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler); email@example.com Subject: RE: Reliable Messaging - Summary of Threads 3 - There is concern about the "two army" problem, which essentially says that it is not possible, given certain assumptions about the types of interactions, for all parties in the communication to reliably reach consensus about what has happened. I have been trying to encourage the objective of documenting the scenarios that can come up in and their relative importance and possibly mitigating factors or strategies. I haven't seen people violently disagreeing but I wouldn't call this a consensus point of view. I consider the ebXML spec as weak in discussing the two-army problem. The two army problem assumes you are using a non-reliable medium for all your communication and proves that it is impossible for the sender to reach confidence that the message has arrived and is processed in 100% of cases. You can increase your level of confidence by using message + ack and being able to resend a message and receive a duplicate ack. That get's you close to a 100% but not quite there, but it means that in most cases the efficient solution (using asynchronous messaging) would work, and so presents a viable option. In my opinion it is sufficient for a low level protocol to give you that level of reliability. And that capability is generic enough that we would want to address it at the protocol level in a consistent manner, so we reduce at least one level of complexity for the service developer. It is also supported by a variety of transport protocols and mediums. This still doesn't mean you can get two distributed services to propertly communicate with each other in all cases. A problem arises if either the message was not received (and is not processed), a message was received but no ack recevied (and is processed) or a message was received and an ack was received but the message is still not processed. That problem is not unique to asynchronous messaging, in fact it also presents itself when synchronous messaging is used. With synchronous messaging you have 100% confidence that a message was received, but no confidence that it will be processed. Furthermore, you may fail before you are able to persist that information, in which case your confidence is lost. If you do not depend on the result of the message being processed than you would simply regard each message that is sent as being potentially processed. You use the ack/resend mechanism as a way to increase the probability that the message indeed reaches its destination, so a majority of your messages will be received and. I argue that using ack/resend you could reach the same level of confidence that the message will be processed as if you were using a synchronous protocol, but could do so more efficiently. If you do depend on the message being processes, then you are in a different class of problem, and simply having a reliable protocol is not sufficient since it does not address the possibility that the message was received, acked but not processed. It in fact presents the same problem that would arise when synchronous protocols are used. This is best solved at a higher layer. There are two possible solutions, both of which are based on the need to reach a concensus between two systems. One solution is based on a two-phase commit protocol, which could be extended to use asynchronous patterns. A more efficient solution in terms of message passing would be to use state transitions that coordinate through the exchange of well defined messages. This could be modeled using a choreography language. Since this is outside the scope of this discussion I will not go into details, but if anyone is interested I would recommend looking at protocols for handling failures in distributed systems (in particular Paxos). In my understanding these protocols are applicable for modeling at the choreography language and are more efficient than using transactional protocols and two-phase commit. My only point here was to highlight that a solution involving ack/resend is sufficient to give you the same level of confidence that a message would be processed as if you were using a synchronous operation, and that solutions for achieving 100% confidence are required whether you are using asynchronous or synchronous messaging. This is in support of Roger's recommendation for adding ack support to XMLP. regards, arkinReceived on Monday, 16 December 2002 14:07:22 UTC
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Is it okay to ask your surgeon what their rates of complications are- is that something they know off hand and should be willing to share?
Daniel Eun, MD, Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology and Reconstruction at?PENN Urology at Pennsylvania Hospital, responds:
Absolutely, and especially for this operation. A surgeon should be able to tell you how many they've done, average operation times, converted to open rates (how often they need to switch from robotic procedure to open prostatectomy during the procedure), blood transfusion rates, continence and erectile function post surgery, etc. A surgeon should be able to tell you published standards as well as personal results. You should also inquire about how they define continence and erectile function, so you can compare apples to apples in a second opinion.
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First Manned Dive to the Titanic in 14 Years
A groundbreaking expedition in early August led a team of experts and scientists 3,810 meters below the ocean's surface to the Titanic's final resting place at the murky depths of the North Atlantic Ocean.The series of five dives over eight days aboard a high-tech Triton 36,000/2 manned submersible Limiting Factor were the first to carry humans to the historic wreck site in 14 years.Patrick Lahey, Triton Submarines president and Co-Founder, and pilot for three of the five dives, said, "The most fascinating aspect was seeing how the Titanic is being consumed by the ocean and returning to its elemental form while providing refuge for a remarkably diverse number of animals.
Expedition Cruise Market Powers Ahead
While nothing lasts forever, the cruise industry – and particularly the 'expedition' cruise sector – remain on a historic run with no indication of a near-term slowdown.The leisure travel sector, of which expedition cruising is a part, offers numerous possibilities for delivering new "experiences" unlike industrial shipping businesses (or even conventional ferry and passenger transport), which can only grow as fast as the demand in a particular sector.Though there is no precise definition of "expedition", the ships are smaller than mainstream cruise ships, usually carrying less than 300 passengers, and the destinations are well off the beaten path
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Paralympic success brings funding increase
"This means," said a very happy Gerry Peckham, the CCA high performance coach in overall change of the program, "that we will be able to enhance both grass root and high performance development via expanded programs and services."
No details as yet.
The top six wheelchair athletes at the end of the assessment year in June receive funding for the following year through the carding system; a monthly training stipend. The five members of the gold medal team receive full cards: Jim Armstrong, Darryl Neighbour, Ina Forrest, Sonja Gaudet, and Bruno Yizek. Bruno trades places with Chris Sobkowicz who now receives funding at "development" card level.
Sport Canada will monitor Jim Armstrong's future eligibility as events relating to his upcoming trial unfold.
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Any word on Armstrong, he was in court on July 6?
- July 8, 2010 at 7:01 AM
Isn't the forever conversation, that success brings further funding?
- July 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Now we have to concede that competitive AND grassroots funding has improved with our gold medal.
- July 10, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Talk is cheap. Lets see how the CCA helps the grassroots program.
- July 11, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Apparently Peckham specifically indicated there was an increase in grassroots funding. What needs to be determined is how it is used.
- July 12, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Who gets input into grassroots spending? Mr Peckham has shown it is not in his interest.
- July 13, 2010 at 7:55 AM
Actually, the previous blogger has a good point.......who in the CCA has the time or interest to iniate an effective grass roots campaign?
- July 13, 2010 at 10:03 AM
How much funding? How much last year from these sources, and how much next year?
How would we find out? Surely there is no reason to keep secret about this.
- July 13, 2010 at 10:25 AM
- Eric Eales said...
I think Peckham saying there was to be an increase in funding indicates there is a willingness on the part of the CCA to be (more) open about resource issues.
Think of the CCA as a wholesaler, and individual curlers as retail customers. The CCA as an organization is not set up to deal with individual curlers. It works through provincial organisations. That is why wheelchair curlers have to organise into representative groups if they wish to influence the direction of their sport.
- July 13, 2010 at 10:58 AM
So what is the best way to utilize the funding?
- July 13, 2010 at 9:02 PM
I bet it goes to the present Team Canada Staff to use at their discretion.
- July 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM
How much do the team members get as carded athletes including the "developmental" card?
- July 15, 2010 at 8:55 AM


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Eric Flamholtz' Book Describes Corporate Culture as a Strategic Asset
Mismanaged or ignored, culture becomes a liability
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"Corporate culture is corporate personality. Every company has a personality, just like every person has a personality. There are actually a few companies that have said to me, "We don't want a corporate culture." I tell them, "You don't understand, whether you want one or not, you have one. The problem is, you have several, you have a schizophrenic culture." Okay, so corporate culture is corporate personality. More formally, it's values, beliefs, and norms. Values are what are important. Beliefs are assumptions and norms are the practices.
Professor Emeritus Eric Flamholtz' book "Growing Pains" is considered a classic. First published in 1986 (the fourth edition was released in 2007 by Flamholtz and his wife/collaborator Yvonne Randle), "Growing Pains" is the bible for successful impresarios making the transition from entrepreneur to effectively-managing a company while sustaining the start-up spirit that motivated them from the get go. "Growing Pains" has been so impactful to more than a generation of UCLA Anderson students-turned-entrepreneurs, that it remains one of the most common responses to the query: "What from your business school experience continues to inform your work today."
Now, Flamholtz and Randle have authored a new book titled, "Corporate Culture - the Ultimate Strategic Asset," (Stanford University Press, 2011) based on one of the six building blocks of the organizational pyramid familiar to "Growing Pains" readers.
Flamholtz believes that companies win with infrastructure - and a key component of infrastructure is corporate culture. "I had become increasingly convinced that corporate culture, was the 'ultimate strategic asset' because it's not 'copyable,'" Flamholtz says. "It's invisible to competitors, it's a stealth asset." Several articles followed, including "Human Capital of the Third Kind: Corporate Culture" and 2001's "Corporate Culture and the Bottom Line." In 2008, he wrote a book on strategy called "Leading Strategic Change: Bridging Theory and Practice." Then came his latest tome.
There are two kinds of books out there about corporate culture. They're either totally theoretical or they're sort of books basically for practitioners. (This book contains) my thoughts are on corporate culture. No one had done the systematic and empirical research on culture (with one exception) besides myself. In addition, no one had really developed a method of how to manage it, you know, how to really manage it effectively and give in-depth examples of companies who are good at certain aspects of corporate culture and that's what we've done in the book. So, that took some time to put together.
In "Corporate Culture," Flamholtz and Randle identify and explain the five key dimensions of corporate culture. They interviewed dozens of executives and explored the corporate cultures - for better or worse - of dozens of companies of various sizes. "Corporate Culture" is rife with real-world examples of corporate cultures, those that work and some that do not. The companies he looked at read like a Who's Who of Multi-National Corporations, including IBM, HP, Walmart, Walt Disney Company, Google and Johnson & Johnson. Flamholtz' initial research went straight to the bottom line, finding that companies that have a unified corporate culture had a superior financial performance than those that didn't.
Number one is, you have to articulate the way you want clients or customers to be treated. Number two, you have to articulate the way you want people to be treated inside the company. Number three, you have to articulate standards of performance and accountability. Number four, you have to value innovation (and be) open to change. And the fifth area is something we now call 'company process orientation,' the decision making processes, planning processes (and) communication processes. That one's a little trickier, but what you find is some companies will say 'Here's what our culture is, here are our core values.' (But) they're not looking at this list, they're just coming up with things. If you look at Hewlett-Packard's culture -- and Hewlett-Packard is known as an excellent company -- they don't have anything in their culture about customers, or didn't until recently. I don't know if they have it now or not. The reason is, when the culture was beginning, (coming) from the DNA of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, they were the customers. It was engineers for engineers, they understood it. Later on, when it went from measurement equipment to computers, they didn't have it in the culture and that's what got them into some trouble. Very few companies have something about innovation and change in their culture, very few. Some companies have something about standards performance, but nothing about accountability.
Flamholtz believes that much of a company's corporate culture is an extension of the founder(s). The values of those who nurture a company from its inception pervade the organization - their values become the values of the firm. He calls this a company's "cultural DNA." As examples, Anita Roddick, founder of natural beauty products manufacturer The Body Shop; 99 Cents Only Stores' Dave Gold, the aforementioned Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett and Starbucks' Howard Schulz.
Schulz' example raises a caution. Founders become CEOs, but eventually CEOs retire or move on to other ventures. What happens to a company's corporate culture when the source of its DNA retires or seeks new ventures? Starbucks brought in an experienced executive from the outside, Jim Donald, and terminated him a few years later, prompting Schulz to return. When Flamholtz asked Schulz about it, Schulz deflected, simply saying "We will never again go outside for a CEO. We'll promote our own, because we have to have someone who understands and embraces the core Starbucks culture." Which is not to say that a company should never go outside its own hallways to hire a CEO. Flamholtz says it's fine to go outside when a company needs to change its corporate culture. "But if it doesn't need to change, if it's a successful culture, you need someone who understands and embraces it," Flamholtz says. "And it's very hard to come in from the outside to understand and embrace it."
Corporate culture is more than just compiling a list and memorizing it. A company and its people must accept and embrace - even live - the values of the firm.
First, you have the stated culture and the real culture and they have to be in alignment. Second thing, I have a way of measuring culture. I believe if you can't measure something then you can't manage it. My whole career has been about creating measurements for virtually un-measurable things, one of which is how to measure corporate culture and gaps. We've created a way to measure what culture is (because) to define what culture is you have to measure gaps between it. You ask people to what extent do you buy in to (their corporate) culture and to what extent is it being practiced? The greater the gap between them, the greater the problem. It's a credibility problem. So if you building a credibility problem there, its fundamental to everything else. It's like, 'If I can't believe you on the core values, what can I believe?' It (becomes just a) wink and a nod.
Flamholtz classifies corporate culture on two-dimensions: strong and weak and functional and dysfunctional. A strong culture is one where people understand it and have a deep understanding of the culture and embrace it. A weak culture is where people either do not understand what the culture is or do not embrace it. A functional culture is one that is positive, leading to high performance while a dysfunctional culture is one that leads to low performance. "Corporate Culture" contains a chapter called "The Dark Side of Corporate Culture" (which he says was the most fun to write) that talks about the types of "dysfunctional culture syndrome" that exists. With names like "The Arrogant Company," "The Gambler," and "Politics R Us Corp.," the chapter details the types of dysfunctional cultural syndromes that exist and should be avoided. Flamholtz calls AIG "the poster child for the financial debacle," in part because the one immutable core cultural value of the Hank Greenberg era - that anyone could challenge any trade - was violated by his successor, who believed no one could challenge him.
On the other hand, there are many examples of "corporate culture done right."
Everyone has imperfections, but I have a high regard for Johnson & Johnson; they're not perfect, but J&J is one. IBM to a great extent, although I've used IBM in The Dark Side of Culture, as well. There's a lot I admire about the IBM culture, but they screwed up, they became too political. Other companies in terms of learning from, depend on the size. If you want to pick some more family businesses, Bell Carter Foods in California is one. At General Electric, they have a matrix with two variables. One is performance and the other is cultural acceptance. The superstars are the people who have high performance and accept the GE culture.
Flamholtz' final point is straightforward: Your company has a corporate culture. Managed correctly, it's an asset, strategically and economically. Handled incorrectly - or ignored altogether - your corporate culture morphs from asset to liability.Contact Information
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DWTS Season 14 – Oh Come On, That's Not Gonna Happen!
This is a new series that I decided to write in order to reduce my exasperation that comes from reading "DWTS" and "Dancing with the Stars" twitter searches every day. 🙂 Partly based in annoyance and partly based in sympathy…I just need to vent a bit. And maybe save some people some time.
What do I mean, you ask? Well, the title pretty much says it all. Everyday I see comments, petitions, made up rumors and the like that are so totally implausible and so…not gonna happen…that it's hard not to write to the posters and explain why they should save their breath and/or their time. 🙂
The number one idea that got me started down this road guaranteed to piss someone off is the Twitition going around to get Cory Monteith (Glee) on DWTS as a celebrity dancer. While I appreciate the passion that fans have for their favorite celebrities, don't waste your time on this one kids. I like Cory as much as the next Gleek, but there are several reasons why you won't see Cory on DWTS in the next few years. For one thing, he's not insane. 🙂 He's riding a popularity wave right now, even though DWTS is much higher rated than Glee is in total viewers. The single most important reason why he won't be on DWTS is that he's not only on a hit TV show…he's on a hit TV show ON ANOTHER NETWORK. Soap stars who aren't on ABC can't get on the show even when they desperately want to do the show…like Michelle Stafford from Y&R, who would look amazing with Derek. It's not likely to happen even though she can be seen in the audience during the season and her soap tapes at the same studio. It's never been publicized, but it's a widely held belief backed up by years of anecdotal evidence that ABC will not cast stars of current shows from other networks on this show. The end.
All that said – I sure would love to see Heather Morris and Harry Shum busta move on a results show. Derek was hanging out with Mark Salling over New Years, maybe he can have another idea that includes those two and Mark can hook him up. 🙂 Hey, I can dream too.
Speaking of petitions…there is one that Chelsie fans are spreading around trying to get her back on the show. Again – I really appreciate the desire, especially as a person who's fav has sat out a season. You miss them. I get it. For this to work, you will need THOUSANDS of signatures, otherwise it is unlikely to make an impact. It's simple math, really – the show is watched by 20 million people, on average. Anything less than 10 percent of that number is unlikely to have an impact. There is NO indication that the professional dancers have any impact on ratings by their presence OR absence. Don't waste your precious time…besides, I think the odds are very good that she'll be back if they find her a tiny guy to dance with. 😉 Sitting out one season is not necessarily a death nell. Lacey sat out a season against her will and she came back. Chelsie will be back too. But if anyone here is seriously worried that I'm wrong, do a search on twitter and sign the petition. It won't hurt anything, for sure.
I saw one thing today that actually made me laugh out loud. Someone posed the question in a poll "Should Maks date Kirsti Alley??" Like it was a real possibility. Like we get to vote on it. Okay, so a youngster has shipper dreams. We've all been there. But Oh dear lord. First off….oh come on, that's not going to happen!! Secondly – you all DO realize that we don't actually have a say in who Maks and/or Kirsti dates, right?? I mean…NO SAY. The show needs to come back on again, and quick. The boredom is making some people act strangely. 🙂 Or they just want a bunch of like-minded followers. Who can say?
My last bit of exasperation of the day is ABC's fault, the twerps. 🙂 We are now on the third consecutive season where ABC/DWTS encourages people to "cast the next season" of the show. The result is massive online campaigns to get a variety of stars on the show….including those who are on other networks, and we already discussed why this doesn't work. This makes me say it in all caps: OH COME ON!!!! How many people who have had massive twitter campaigns for their favorites, encouraging people to "go vote" on the abc website have actually made it on to the show?? ZERO. If any one of those people get selected it will be pure blind luck…or someone they already desperately wanted anyway. Since no one has been chosen the past two seasons, why do people insist on wasting hours a day (clogging my twitter feed) begging people to go vote?? Do they work for ABC?? 🙂
Granted, ABC never claims that it is an actual contest. It phrases it in much the same way that Vogue phrases her polls…asking what readers think. The big difference is, of course – we have no actual connection to the show (not to mention that we actually try to limit it to ONE vote). The very nature of the DWTS website lends the question some…plausibility. There are people who think they actually have a chance. All they really succeed in doing is giving a whole bunch of slow season hits to the website guaranteed to keep the ad revenue high. Which of course makes it genius, albeit extraordinarily annoying. Please quit clogging my twitter feeds with spam request to "vote for…" Please? 🙂
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New London: Mayo paid according to agreement
New London — The city is denying allegations by city firefighter Al Mayo that they shorted him more than $8,000 in salary payments when he returned to work from a suspension after his arrest.
Norwich attorney Gary A. Cicchiello, in a letter dated April 8 to the city of New London on behalf of Mayo, claims that the city essentially kept the unemployment benefits Mayo collected during a three-month unpaid suspension.
Mayo was suspended in June 2013 following his arrest for his alleged involvement in a fight outside the Polish Club in Montville. He remained out of work for about eight months, until Feb. 12, while his case was pending. Mayo ended up pleading no contest to the misdemeanor charge of breach of peace and received a one-year conditional discharge.
When his case was resolved, Mayo accepted a 45-work day suspension without pay as part of a settlement agreement he signed. The city agreed to reimburse Mayo his missed salary, minus what Mayo was paid in unemployment compensation.
Mayo collected $16,968 in unemployment benefits between June 21, 2013, and Dec. 29, 2013, when the benefits ended.
By Mayo's calculations, the back pay should have totaled $8,700. The check he received was for about $164.
City Attorney Brian Estep said the city, along with subtracting about $1,800 for such things as pension payments, union dues and insurance, claimed the unemployment benefits Mayo received during his three-month suspension.
"As part of the terms of the agreement the city was entitled to take credit for any unemployment benefits paid from the salary to be reimbursed after the suspension ended," Estep said. "The city acted pursuant to terms of the agreement which was signed by firefighter Mayo."
The agreement was signed by Mayo, Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio, Fire Chief Henry Kydd and fire department Union President Rocco Basilica. Mayo and the union agreed not to grieve terms of the agreement.
Cicchiello, in his letter, claims Mayo should have been able to keep the unemployment benefits he received during the suspension period.
"The City has not cited any provision in his contract which provides that he cannot collect unemployment benefits during a suspension," Cicchiello wrote. "Furthermore the city has not cited to any provision in his contract which provides that the City is entitled to reimbursement for unemployment benefits paid during an unpaid vacation."
Cicchiello has requested the city pay Mayo $8,751.92 in back pay, "or in the alternative pay Mr. Mayo the entire back-pay amount of $19,053.92. Mr. Mayo will then deal with the State of Connecticut Unemployment Department on the issue of reimbursement."
This is not Mayo's first clash with the city. Hired and later fired by the city in 2011 before his graduation from the state fire academy, he claimed race was a factor in his mistreatment by the city and by officials at the academy.
He was rehired in 2012 following a report that concluded Mayo may have been unfairly treated at the academy.
The scuffle at the Montville Police Club, according to Ron Stevens, Mayo's attorney in the criminal case, started after the other man made derogatory comments about Mayo's using race to keep his job in New London.
Mayo said he's looking to put the newest controversy behind him.
"I really hope that this awful situation is corrected soon because unfortunately my family has suffered from this administration's actions, once again," Mayo said in a statement. "I was under the impression that I was going to be made whole with partial back pay but in the end shockingly most of my back pay was withheld from me and that is not right."
Cicchiello has not returned calls seeking comment.
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The Curious Wavefunction has a nice post on the issue of selective and non-selective kinase inhibitors. An interesting commentary, especially in the light of the recent paper on network polypharmcology. While there have been a number of papers on polypharmcology and the idea itself is very attractive, it has seemed to me that for this approach to succeed we need very detailed information on the targets and systems involved in these networks. Indeed, a current project of mine is currently hitting this problem. As Ashutosh notes,
… in the first place we don't even know what specific subset of kinases to hit for treating a particular disease. First comes target validation, then modulation.


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ALAMEDA – Rookie cornerback D.J. Hayden is in a local hospital as a result of an abdominal issue that surfaced last week, Raiders coach Dennis Allen said Tuesday.
Hayden is expected to miss the remainder of the Raiders offseason workouts and practices, but he should be ready to go again when training camp begins in late July.
A Raiders spokesman said Hayden was admitted to the hospital late last week and that he underwent a procedure to remove scar tissue from his abdominal region.
Allen said he isn't sure whether there's any correlation between Hayden's current situation and the ruptured vein Hayden suffered last November during a practice at the University of Houston.
"We can't rule that out, obviously, but right now I don't know exactly what the correlation is to it," Allen said. "But we don't anticipate it being an issue."
Hayden underwent surgery to repair the ruptured vena cava, which supplies blood to the heart from the lower body. He was cleared by doctors to resume football activities last month after surviving an injury that is 95 percent fatal, by some accounts.
A phone call to the doctor that performed the life-saving surgery on Hayden at Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute was not returned.
Hayden participated in practice last week, when the Raiders began their organized team activities. Allen said Hayden's symptoms surfaced soon thereafter.
"My stomach hurts so bad right now," Hayden said via Twitter on May 20, the first day of OTA.
Safety Usama Young said he was on the field with Hayden at the start of OTA and sensed something wasn't quite right.
"You could tell he was under the weather," Young said. "I thought that was it; he was under the weather. … . It took me by surprise. I didn't think he was that sick."
Young said he has communicated with Hayden via text message and that Hayden said he is doing "a lot better."
Linebacker Nick Roach said he didn't even know that Hayden had been hospitalized.
Roach said he noticed Hayden with a hoodie pulled down over his head. Then again, a lot of players do that early in the morning, he added.
"I didn't know the extent of it," Roach said.
The Raiders selected Hayden with the 12th pick of the 2013 NFL draft. They are counting upon Hayden to crack the starting lineup at some point.
During recent interviews, Hayden said he felt good and that the only time he thinks about the injury he suffered in November is when he gets asked about it.
Allen said Hayden's absence, combined with a calf injury to cornerback Tracy Porter, leaves the Raiders thin at cornerback and makes it all the more difficult for Hayden to succeed from the outset.
"It's obviously not a good thing, from a football standpoint," Allen said. "As a rookie, you need all the reps you can get and all the work you can get."
Young said Hayden "looked the part" from what little he saw of Hayden before he was hospitalized.
"He looked pretty good," Young said. "It looked like he was moving pretty well. He looked good, looked fast, looked quick, had good hands."
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