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Copper-infused linens now at third Sentara hospital
Beginning Sunday, Nov. 2, patients and visitors at Sentara CarePlex Hospital in Hampton, VA will start seeing salmon-hued bed linens, gowns and towels, but it has nothing to do with the latest fashion trend. Building on its launch of the world's largest clinical trial of copper-infused textiles and hard surfaces, Sentara Healthcare is now expanding the study to a third hospital by converting all linens at Sentara CarePlex to ones infused with copper.
The test materials – bed linens, patient gowns and towels - are supplied by Richmond, VA.-based Cupron®, Inc. Cupron also provided the linens used in the ongoing studies at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk. Sentara Leigh Hospital additionally has implemented copper-infused, self-sanitizing hard surfaces from Cupron partner, Norfolk, Va.-based EOS Surfaces.
"Sentara is pleased to continue deploying these advanced antimicrobial materials into our in-patient facilities," said Dr. Gene Burke, vice president of Clinical Effectiveness for Sentara. "While the studies at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Sentara Leigh Hospital are still ongoing, we've seen enough progress that we felt it warranted further analysis."
The use of copper-infused textiles at Sentara CarePlex Hospital will be part of an evaluation to compare the impact of Cupron linens on hospital acquired infections (HAIs) and antibiotic usage. Cupron discovered ways to isolate copper particles that can be stabilized and embedded in a variety of materials. Copper-enhanced socks, produced by Cupron, gained distinction during the 2010 Chilean mining incident, a 63-day ordeal during which 33 miners were trapped underground in wet and humid conditions. Upon rescue, the miners credited the Cupron socks they were provided with the excellent condition of their feet.
"I'm thrilled to welcome this innovative product into our hospital," said Debra Flores, president of Sentara CarePlex Hospital. "Adding Sentara CarePlex to this revolutionary pilot study of copper-infused materials demonstrates our organization's commitment to patient safety and quality care."
The use of Cupron linens is a supplemental layer of protection and not a substitute for standard infection control practices. Sentara employees will continue to follow all current infection control practices, including cleaning and disinfection of all environmental surfaces and textiles.
Linens expand world's largest clinical trial of copper-infused linens, surfaces in combating infections. In April, 2015, Sentara Leigh Hospital's West Tower will open completely outfitted with copper-infused materials from Cupron and EOS Surfaces, including countertops, over-the-bed tables, bed rails, and textiles ranging from bed linens to patients gowns. The opening of the West Tower will result in all 250 of the hospital's patient rooms serving as copper-infused test studies.
Sentara has received national recognition for its efforts to improve patient care and reduce infections. Reducing length of stay, readmissions and mortality rates, especially in the areas of heart failure, pneumonia and sepsis, are a prime focus for Sentara Healthcare. National quality leaders such as VHA have blueprinted Sentara practices at reducing, and in some cases, eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia. In addition, Sentara hospitals have been recognized for their work in ICUs to reduce central line blood stream infections and urinary tract infections.


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https://instagram.com/p/Be6ehMxhRSu/Little highlight reel from the awards.
Just love this fella, can't wait to see him in an Everton shirt. Won't buy one and jinx things like with Sandro, mind...
I wouldn't hold your breath. We have Bolasie who cost 30 million quid and Walcott who cost 20 million quid both with more experience.
And Cenk Tosun who cost £27m and cant even get a game..........omg, we really are a train wreck arent we !
The way were run as a club and what we look like to other fans reminds me in recent times of Blackburn, Portsmouth, Sunderland and qpr, proper laughing stocks
Surely at least Bill must see that we are a laughing stock and have a serious chat with Moshiri ?
Heard a rumour from a very reliable ITK on another forum that Kenwright will be gone by the end of March.
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The Wall Street Journal Published an article which discuss possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems, but why on earth should IBM take over Sun Microsystems when every product which Sun offer has a counterpart in IBM arsenal.
In software range Sun offers Operating System, Database, Application server family of products, identity management family of product, Integration series of products either developed by Sun or acquired from other companies, Software development tools including NetBeans and its related add-ons. All of these products has a counterpart in IBM series of products.
In hardware range Sun offers Storages, X86 and Sparc servers, and networking solutions. All of these products have their counterpart in IBM arsenal and having them add no exceptional value to IBM set of available products which make IBM take over Sun Microsystems.
But Why would IBM think about buying Sun Microsystems and what Sun own that IBM does not?
- First Sun owns Java and all rights over its patents and source codes
- Sun owns some products which I am not aware of any counterpart in IBM offering, these products includes: VirtualBox and X86 virtualization, and Sun xVM Ops for data centre management
- It is told that IBM has the largest patents arsenal but Sun owns enough patents which IBM might be interested to own them
- Although IBM has AIX and there are some undergo efforts to port Solaris to Z architecture but maybe IBM has some more plans with Solaris
A list of Sun software with their counterpart in IBM arsenal:
Sun Product
IBM counterpart
IBM JDK, although I think IBM licensed Some part of Sun JDK to avoid developing them again (class path?)
NetBeans and Sun Studio series of products (For Java, C++ and so on)*
Eclipse and Rational line of products(For Java, C++ and so on)
Sun middle-ware product line including but not limited to: GlassFish, Portal, Sun Identity management, JCAPS and OpenESB, and so on.*
IBM Websphere product line including but not limited to: Application server, Portal, Tivoli Identity management, ESB, and so on.
IBM AIX, Z/OS, Z/VM and whatever Z starting word that you can write here
MySQL as a product which Sun owns, Java DB and PostGreSQL support*
DB2, DB2 express edition, DB2 community edition, Informix dynamic server(is it still alive?)
Nothing that I am aware of
Nothing that I am aware of
Nothing that I am aware of
*All of these products except JCAPS and Sun xVM Ops are open source. And all of them are high quality with a well established community of user and third party companies which are involved in their development.
Now, Why could be possible reason that we hear "IBM in Talks to Buy Sun"? The reason can be:
- Patents and rights that Sun is holding over Java, Sparc and Solaris
- The Open Source model which Sun introduced and looks to be successful
- Open Source products that Sun is developing and have gained enough attraction from the community which result in "IBM in Talks to Buy Sun" once more.
- Brilliant architects, engineers, and evangelists which are working for Sun Microsytems
- Some software and functionalities which IBM does not own
- Customers and community to gain more market share, specially in middle range market
- Maybe IBM is interested in un-released Sun Cloud Computing… Sun is known to either does not enter an area or if entered provides a very good product or service in that area, technically speaking.
What can happen if IBM take over Sun Microsytems? The answer is: no one knows expect those IBM super managers which are possibly thinking about this take over. But some predictions:
- Java will evolve much faster as IBM has more man power to assign to it
- OpenSolaris will get more attention and possibly replace AIX in long term
- MySQL and Sun middle-ware products will form a big bundle of highly integrated, high quality Open Source products and bring more revenue to IBM
- IBM will lay off some Sun employees, specially in sales and marketing section because they have many sales and marketing employees
- NetBeans and Eclipse? I can not comment with more than 20 percent of certainty, but I think either IBM kill all middle-ware or work on NetBeans development for as long as they provide all NetBeans functionalities that support Sun middle-ware development in Eclipse
- JavaFX will see a boost in development as IBM can afford more man power
- Swing and SWT story? I think IBM will keep Swing as a part of JRE but hey will push SWT as a part of the JRE to ensure it will get enough chance of growing in the market
- Responsibilities for providing support for Java, JCP, TCK and… will be given to a foundation organized by IBM, Oracle, RedHat, …
I may have missed some items due to short term forgetfulness or being completely unaware of their presence. If you happen to know them, let me know and I will include it in this blog.


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A barman used to put up a $100 bet that after he had squeezed a lemon no one would get a drop out of it. For awhile he took everyone's money. Then one day a little thin bloke with bottle top glasses and a screwed up face came in, he ordered a beer, and as he looked around he saw the notice about the bet. "I'll have a $100 on that" he said, the barman came up and picked up the lemon in his huge fist and squeezed, his arm muscles knotting;you could hear the pips crack,
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Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Is Already a Model. We Fear This Will Not End Well. [PHOTOS]
Dannielynn Birkhead, daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith, is following in her mother's footsteps -- no, not the ones with a penchant for breast implants, drugs and octogenarians.
Like her mom, young Dannielynn is now a GUESS model.
The photographs for GUESS Kids come 20 years after Anna Nicole modeled for GUESS Jeans, and according to a press release from the company's creative director, Paul Marciano, "Dannielynn has the same playful spirit that her mother had on a set ... She is a second-generation GUESS girl, which makes this campaign a first for us."
Anna Nicole died in 2007 at the age of 39 after overdosing on a mixture of prescription medication. After a lengthy paternity dispute over her then-infant daughter, DNA tests proved Dannielynn's father was Anna Nicole's ex, Larry Birkhead.
He says his 6-year-old daughter knows that her mother died, but isn't yet aware of the circumstances of her death, adding, "At first I said, 'Your mommy's up in the clouds.' Then we were on a plane from Kentucky and she asked, 'Which cloud is my mom on. Maybe she can come play?'"
Sad and cute all rolled into one. Hopefully he can keep the little girl (who's already quite a stunner) from following in too many of her mom's tragic footsteps.
Photos from Dannielynn's spring campaign will start appearing in January 2013. Here's another sneak peek:


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I have two Linux distributions (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu) installed on two different partitions. Each time I start my machine, GRUB loads up, allowing me to select one of the two distributions.
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The Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Laboratory researchers develop and prototype the next generation of power electronics and electric machines that will increase hybrid vehicle efficiency, reliability and durability while reducing component cost, weight and volume. Major areas of research include development of advanced power electronics packaging and topologies, high-performance motor technology that does not use permanent magnets, wireless charging, component benchmarking, and ongoing evaluations of hybrid drivetrains.
The Vehicle Systems Integration (VSI) Laboratory offers unique capabilities to evaluate and simulate engines, electric motors, and transmissions in conventional and hybrid powertrain configurations for vehicles ranging from light-duty cars to Class 8 trucks. The VSI Lab is changing the pace of powertrain development by performing prototype research and characterization of advanced systems and components. Housed at NTRC, the VSI Lab comprises a powertrain test cell with twin AVL 500 kW AC transient dynamometers and a component test cell – both share energy storage system emulation and dSPACE hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) real-time platform capabilities. The VSI Lab also features "X"-in-the-loop hardware evaluation of powertrain components and/or subsystems in virtual vehicle environments, where "X" represents any experimental component or subsystem.
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ORNL's Sustainable Transportation Program is also based at NTRC. Program staff members work closely with scientists and engineers across research disciplines to integrate transportation research taking place at NTRC and at the main ORNL campus. These research efforts include studies of vehicles and fuel, the mobility of passengers and freight, the nation's transportation infrastructure, and energy distribution systems that support transportation. The program supports a number of federal and private research organizations that fund research at the laboratory, including DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies, Biomass, and Fuel Cell Technologies programs; the Department of Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency; various industries; and other partners.
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Book, DVD illuminate life of farmer executed for refusing to serve in Nazi army
Edited by Erna Putz, translated with commentary by Robert A. Krieg
Published by Orbis Books, $25
One of the more daunting realizations one can have about the life of Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian farmer who was executed in 1943 for refusing to join the Nazi cause, is that his beatification in October 2007 was not only a recognition of his heroic act but also an affirmation by the church of his thinking about war and the Christian response to a state's unjust demands.
This collection of his writings, largely exchanges with his wife, Franziska, as well as essays from the time of his imprisonment, is significant because it is the most complete representation to date of Jägerstätter's deep spirituality and of his rationale for refusing to serve.
As such it rounds out the improbable story of this lone dissenter in his small village who would have remained unknown to history had it not been for research in the 1960s by the late Gordon Zahn, one of the founders of Pax Christi USA, who discovered a reference to Jägerstätter in the appendix of a biography of a priest who had resisted the Nazis.
Jägerstätter's reading of scripture and the Catholic faith led him to conclude that the Nazis were conducting an unjust war and that he could not participate, a conclusion for which he could find no affirmation at the time from church authorities.
That is not to say that his views were singular in all of Austria. In fact he would certainly have heard of the anti-Nazi writings of the bishop of Linz, a city a few hours from Jägerstätter's farm village, as pointed out in a valuable introduction by longtime peace activist Jim Forest. In 1933, the bishop, Johannes Maria Gföllner, condemned Nazism as "spiritually sick with materialistic racial delusions, un-Christian nationalism, a nationalistic view of religion, with what is quite simply sham Christianity." Linz had a new, more moderate bishop by 1941.
Jägerstätter, however, would also have been aware that Austria's hierarchy had advocated that citizens vote in favor of Anschluss, or the takeover of Austria by the Germans, with the cardinal at the time signing a declaration to that effect. The words "Heil Hitler!" were above his signature.
Jägerstätter would also have known of priests who were speaking out against the Nazis and paying with imprisonment or their lives. What made Jägerstätter's act so extraordinary was the fact that he was an ordinary farmer, the father of three daughters by his wife and a fourth by another woman before he was married. That the church would ultimately hold him in high esteem by his church for taking such an insistent stance, even though his bishop and pastor provided rationale for taking a less controversial path, seems a significant endorsement in this era for the primacy of individual conscience.
Directed and produced by Jason A. Schmidt and Ron Schmidt, S.J. December 2nd Productions/Hope Media Productions, $14.95
As both the book of his writings and a new DVD, "Franz Jägerstätter: A Man of Conscience," make clear, Jägerstätter was not acting out of a pacifist position. In fact, he answered an initial call to military training before returning home. His refusal came upon being recalled to service. And even during his imprisonment, he attempted to escape execution by applying for the medical corps three times, but was turned down.
So his reaction was to what he deemed irrational and unnecessary violence, and in that he presents both a model and challenge for today. His letters and essays are full of his internal discussions about the duty of the Christian citizen and to what lengths one might go to accommodate the wishes of the state.
The book sets up the extensive exchanges and essays with two pieces. The introduction by Forest presents the complex and sometimes desperate context within which Jägerstätter deliberated and made his decision. The texts were translated by theologian Robert A. Krieg of the University of Notre Dame, who provides an overview of the material: a total of 128 letters, 74 by Franz and 54 by Franziska, and a collection of essays that lay out "the ideas that undergirded his opposition to National Socialism, the Third Reich, and the war."
The 24-minute video covers much of the same biographical material but includes a range of voices that are welcome contemporary interpreters of Jägerstätter's life. It is wanting as a piece of visual material because there are only still photographs of the principal figure. Much of his struggle, of course, was interior and contained in his writing, a process impossible to photograph.
Martin Sheen narrates the work and reads from Jägerstätter's writings, all of which occurs around interviews with Jägerstätter family members, including daughters and a granddaughter and, most moving, with Franziska, now 96. She had to undergo her own ordeal, being left behind in the village with small children and facing neighbors' accusations that it was her influence that led Franz to such extremes of faith and conviction.
Theirs was a story of deep love and affection as well as martyrdom and sacrifice, and one can detect a sense of dignity and vindication even now as she recalls the circumstances of those years.
Tom Roberts is NCR editor at large. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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There have been many times when Reeves has explored music beyond jazz. She did session work in Los Angeles starting in 1976, toured with Caldera, worked with Sergio Mendes in 1981, and toured with Harry Belafonte during 1983-1986. Reeves began recording as a leader in 1982 and became a regular at major jazz festivals. Her earlier recordings tended to be quite eclectic and many of her live performances have included original African-inspired folk music (which is often autobiographical), world music, and pop.
However, after signing with Blue Note in 1987, and particularly since 1994, Reeves has found her place in jazz, recording several classic albums along the way, most notably I Remember, The Grand Encounter, The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan, and A Little Moonlight. In 2005, she appeared onscreen singing '50s standards in the George Clooney film Good Night, and Good Luck. When You Know was released in 2008. Reeves is at her best performing swinging jazz live. And her musical introduction of her band (which can be lengthy, witty, and full of inspired scatting) is sometimes nearly as memorable as the music. She is always capable of greatness. ~ Scott Yanow


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MINNEAPOLIS - Terrebonne High School in Houma, La., could be known for graduating former NFL All-Pro place-kicker Richie Cunningham and NLF wide receiver Frank Lewis, or maybe even former New York Yankees pitcher Wally Whitehurst.
Now there is another young man from Houma - a city of about 34,000 residents not far from New Orleans that is rich in Cajun culture and tradition - who, if fate treats him fairly, could one day become the biggest athletic success story Terrebonne High has ever produced.
Justin Williams - an affable, easygoing, ready-with-a-smile, 6-foot-2, 210-pound slugging outfielder/third baseman who will be a senior at Terrebonne in the fall - is a still developing prospect who has climbed the rankings and is now considered to potentially be a first round selection in the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
He has already committed to play collegiately at Louisiana State.
Williams will be here at the Metrodome over the next several days displaying his considerable talents in front of professional scouts at the 2012 Perfect Game National Showcase. He is ranked the No. 4 overall national prospect in the high school graduating class of 2013, and has earned that ranking despite having played the game for only the past several years. The word "raw" is still used frequently when the conversation turns to Williams.
After Williams was named the top prospect at the PG National Underclass Showcase-Main Event in late December, 2011, Perfect Game National Director of Scouting David Rawnsley noted that the left-handed hitting Williams "still has some rough spots in his swing but he has outstanding raw strength and power to all fields, the kind that plays in the Major Leagues."
During a batting practice session early Thursday afternoon, Williams hit a couple of bombs into the Metrodome's upper deck deep in right field.
"I just want to do my best. I want to play to the best of my potential," Williams told Perfect Game about an hour before his BP session. "I've been to a couple of Perfect Game events and now I'm starting to get more comfortable and I'm not as nervous, and I can show off my real skills when I'm not quite as jittery."
Williams made a couple of decisions in the past year that should go along ways toward enhancing his baseball career. First, he got hooked up with Chad Raley at Baton Rouge-based Marucci Elite Baseball last summer. He then gave up football and basketball after the 2011 high school seasons to concentrate solely on baseball.
Williams was the No. 18-ranked prospect when he was at the PG National Underclass Showcase-Main Event and climbed 14 positions to No. 4 in the last six months.
"Baseball is my first love," he said in December. "I played football to stay in shape - I really didn't like it all that much - and basketball was just something I did for fun. I'm just going to stick with baseball now. I want to pay more attention to baseball and the areas I need to work on, and I'm going to work on that so I can become a better player."
On Thursday, Williams showed off an ugly, half-dollar-sized scabbed over blister on one of his palms that looked like it was possibly starting to turn to callous. That's what hard work can render.
"I've been taking a lot of BP and I've been working on my throwing because I'm a little stiff in my lower body," Williams said. "Chad Raley, I thank him a lot because he's the reason I'm here."
Raley and Williams have formed an important relationship, one aimed at making Williams the best baseball player he can be. Upon completion of his school year, Williams moved into Raley's home in Baton Rouge, and the two spend hours each day working out at Marucci Elite's indoor facility. Raley calls Williams a "big kid" at heart who is just now learning the reaches of his potential.
"He just wants to keep getting better," Raley said Thursday. "I think last year he didn't really understand how good he was and he's starting to understand that now. He still doesn't quite have that confidence of knowing how good he is ... and I keep trying to tell him that someday he could make a lot of money in this game. Hitting comes really easy to him."
Williams played in five PG WWBA tournaments in 2011, and was also at the 2011 PG Junior National Showcase in Fort Myers (in addition to the aforementioned PG National Underclass-Main Event). He played at the 2012 17u/18u Perfect Game-East Cobb Invitational with Marucci Elite last week, where he was joined by fellow PG National Green team members and top-six ranked prospects Oscar Mercado and Christopher Rivera.
"I'm seeing all the talent from around the country and seeing that everyone is just as good as me and I know I have to keep working hard," Williams said of his experiences.
Because he was still playing football last fall, Williams missed out on participating in either the 2011 PG WWBA Underclass World Championship or the PG WWBA World Championship, a pair of tournaments Marucci Elite won. The fact he missed those celebrations still stings.
"The thing I've been looking forward to is getting a ring with Marucci," Williams said Thursday. "And then the tournaments I couldn't get to because of football, we won a ring. I'm really looking forward to getting back down (to Jupiter) this year and winning a ring."
Raley can only smile at the thought.
"All the guys jack around with him and show him their rings and stuff and he wants one real bad," the coach said. There could be plenty of rings for the young man from Houma, La., in the future.


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The President's budget has just been released, and so has a Republican alternative from the House Appropriations Committee. Reading them is like watching two people play a video game and confusing it for the real world. These budgets don't reflect competing visions so much as they do competing priorities within a commonly-held set of assumptions. They both share an artificial view of today's reality – both economic and human – that warps our vision and limits our choices. The President may be playing the game as well as he can, but what he really needs to do is stop playing altogether.
The rules of this videogame are: 1) Accept the fact that the ultra-rich will keep accumulating ever greater amounts of wealth, and will continue to exert undue influence on the political process. 2) As a result, accept the fact that we can't resist the fundamental changes to our way of life that will create. 2) Sacrifice a large part of the social programs which gave us 75 years of shared prosperity, since they're incompatible with this change. 3) Preserve and expand your political power within this virtual-reality construct.
Inside this game the Republicans are in full First-Person-Shooter mode, trying to annihilate every humane program that crosses their path. For their part, the President and his team are playing the game as artfully as they can. Sometimes they're trying to slow their opponents down, and at other times they're trying to score points of their own with targeted attacks on vital social programs. Yet they seem to have fully accepted the false premise that they deserve extra points for making artificially-framed "tough choices" – between giving people their Social Security benefits or going bankrupt, for example, or between creating jobs and reducing the long-term deficit.
But the real solution seems to have escaped them, which is to tell the public the truth: It's a stupid game and we shouldn't play it.
Zombie Jamboree
Every video game, even a cold-war game like Call of Duty: Black Ops , seems to throw a few zombies into the scenario. (My nephew James tells me that Kennedy and Nixon fight zombies together in Black Ops.) The budget game has zombies, too. The Republican response to every government program always seems to be the same: They want to eat its brains. The House Appropriations Committee majority boasts of its budget: ""This legislation represents the largest single discretionary spending reduction in the history of Congress."
The House Republicans don't mention the fact that they're cutting government programs in the face of the most severe long-term employment crisis since the Great Depression – a tragedy that's accompanied by soaring poverty,increased food insecurity, and an entire generation of middle-class Americans who have lost a lifetime's accumulated wealth. The economy needs medical attention and they're bragging about cutting back on medication.
The President seems to believe he can win by offering more targeted budget cuts that let him score "budget-cutter" points without descending into full zombie mode. As E. J. Dionne describes it, the White House believes that "by showing a willingness to make reductions, (the President's) budget will shift the focus toward the specific programs Republicans would wipe out or cripple." Dionne spoke to an unnamed senior White House official who said they're hoping to frame the argument this way: "They want to cut and spend. We want to cut and spend. Let's compare their cuts and our cuts, their spending and our spending."
In other words, they think they can play the video game against the Republicans and win. That's why they're cutting fuel oil subsidies, some student loans (for the very same students we're told will "win the future"), and a variety of other programs. Some of the programs the President would cut are popular with his base. It's almost as if he feels he can score extra points for sacrificing programs his party reveres. It's not clear how the President thinks he can win by alienating his base and reinforcing the Republican narrative that government is an economy-destroyer, rather than a potential economy-rescuer as it was during the Great Depression.
Once you decide to play the game, as the White House apparently has, the President's moves are well-intentioned and some are even brave. He's willing to take some of the points he's accumulating and sacrifice them for a certain amount of greatly-needed investment and (dare we use this word?) stimulus spending. Within the virtual-reality world that's been constructed, that's daring. But here's the real problem: By accepting the false premise of the game, he's reinforcing the belief that it reflects reality.
Even if he wins, we lose.
If the President's economic policies have a unifying theme, an "Obamanomics," it seems to be this: The massive upward wealth shift is permanent and corporate control of the economy is unstoppable. We'll try to moderate its harmful effects, but we don't dare even discuss it, much less address it as a social problem that must be addressed. While the rich continue to accumulate more wealth and power under this premise, the rest of us must share the burdens of an ever-decreasing prosperity as fairly and equitably as we can.
In that context, the December tax deal might have been the right move. But if the President wanted to change the rules of the game, he needed to fight harder and more publicly before conceding an extended tax break for the wealthiest Americans. By cutting the deal prematurely, and without debate, he reinforced the illusion that the game is reality.
Many of the President's other moves make more sense in this video-game context than they do in the real world. The health reform bill provides coverage for millions of low-income people – a brave, point-sacrificing move by the President. But by considering insurance companies untouchable, that coverage was made economically possible in large part through an individual mandate and other measures that place added financial burdens onto the middle class. Similarly, the financial reform bill slowed the acceleration of bank misbehavior. But by refusing to break up "too big to fail" banks or taxing financial speculation, it too also away from any attack on the game's premise.
Massively Multiplayer
Gaming has a role to play in society, as I learned when I worked on an online game with the Institute for the Future. But even though my pal Jane McGonigal's game work is terrific and I can't wait to read her book, not all games are worth playing.
Games like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty are MMGs – "massively multiplayer games" with millions of online players. You can play them in "single player" mode, or online with millions of other people.
It will take some massively multiplayer response to break down the videogame rules that are constraining this budget debate. Some politicians are refusing to play, including the Progressive Congressional Caucus and a number of breakaway Senators and others. They deserve, and should receive, widespread public support. Other strategies will be needed to push back against the shared reality reflected in today's budget debates.
We'll need to confront our deficit problem after we've recovered from our current crisis, just as a sick patient needs to stop taking medication once he's well. But as we learned in preparing the Citizens' Commission report on Jobs, Deficits, and the American Future, and in our preparation for an upcoming Jobs Summit, budgets like these are a step in the wrong direction. The first step toward reducing the deficit is to rebuild a healthy economy, which means short-term spending for needed social programs and job-creating initiatives.
The Democrats need to understand that they can't win in the long run by accepting a video game premise that calls for the dismantling of the New Deal, the sacrifice of the poor, or the continued destruction of the middle class – now, or when its member retires.
Part of a leader's job is to challenge popular illusions, not reinforce them. The fate of the Democrats is sealed if they lose touch with a reality that's shared by the millions of Americans who are impoverished, jobless, or worried about paying their mortgage. For them, this isn't a game.
UPDATE: Robert Reich channels his inner David Bowie to make a similar argument – that, in his words, Obama's putting out a fire with gasoline by accepting the budget-cutting premise at a time when we need government spending.
This post was produced as part of the Curbing Wall Street project and the Strengthen Social Security campaign.


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In two starts, both at 1 1/16 miles on the Woodbine Polytrack and both equally impressive, the Chiefswood Stable's homebred has twice lived up to her favouritism and to Attard's expectations.
"She always gave us the impression she was a good filly," offered Attard, of the Ontario-bred, who won by eight lengths on October 13 and 3 ¼ lengths on November 3. "When she came up from Ocala, Rob Landry (former jockey and current racing manager for Chiefswood) said, 'You've got a nice one on your hands.' I have a lot of respect for Rob and to hear him say that – it meant a lot."
So, too, did the words of jockey Jesse Campbell, aboard for both victories.
"After the second race, Jesse said to me, 'Keep a close eye on this one. You might want to sleep in the same stall with her.' It's one thing for you to feel a certain way about a horse, but when you hear those kind of things from others, it really gives you reason to be optimistic."
Actually, Attard prefers 'cautiously optimistic' when it comes to his budding star.
"When you see the way she goes about her business, it does get your heart pumping," said the lifetime winner of 166 races. "But you also have to be level-headed. You make plans in a cautious way, but you realize things can change in a moment. The tough part is that you don't want to get too excited, but you can't always help it."
Morning works, prior to her first start, are a perfect example of that for Attard.
"When she came up from Ocala, we were working her at the Chiefswood Training Centre," recalled Attard. "She is just so focused when she is on the track, working or in a race. When she's on the track, it looks like she floats out there."
On Sunday, Attard will be hopeful of another trip to the winner's circle and perhaps most importantly, another indication that even better days are ahead for Original Script.
As for the advice he received from Campbell, Attard won't be bunking in his filly's stall any time soon. But he will be keeping close tabs on the Chiefswood silk-bearer, who will join him in Florida over the winter months.
"The stall, that's her territory," noted Attard. "But that's fine with me. You don't get horses like her in your barn every day. We'll just do what it takes to make the best decisions for her. Hopefully, it all works out."
The 34th edition of the Ontario Lassie is carded as race eight.


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