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ARLINGTON — Texas-bound running back Malcolm Brown scored all three Cibolo Steele touchdowns, including the game-winner late in a 24-21 victory against Denton Guyer in the Class 5A Division II championship game Saturday.
Brown needed 28 carries to get 107 yards, but had a critical 8-yard run on third-and-6 early in the decisive fourth-quarter drive. A play earlier, quarterback Tommy Armstrong recovered his own fumble when a Guyer defender lost control of the ball.
The winning score for Steele (14-2) was a 2-yard run by Brown on the same power sweep that earlier converted a fourth-and-goal from the 1.
Guyer (13-3) took its first lead at 21-17 on the previous possession when Treavon Walton went 10 yards to finish a short drive.
Steele coach Mike Jinks was a winner in a battle of first-time finalists 22 years after he was the quarterback for Converse Judson in a loss to Dallas Carter in the 5A title game. Judson was later awarded the title by forfeit.
Two plays after his team took the lead, Guyer's Zack Markwardt had the ball — and possibly the game — in his arms when he fell on an Armstrong fumble at the Steele 27. The ball squirted loose, though, and Armstrong ended up with it.
Armstrong got the drive moving with a 14-yard screen pass to Brown's backfield mate, Jordan Sterns, who later added a 16-yard run. A 17-yard Armstrong pass to Tyler Glasz set up Brown's winning run on a 77-yard drive, the shortest of Steele's three touchdown drives.
Guyer quarterback J.W. Walsh, who came in with nearly 4,400 yards and 51 touchdowns combined passing and rushing, moved his team to the Steele 37 needing a field goal to tie, but was intercepted at the 9 with 1:31 remaining.
Walsh, who is headed for Oklahoma State, had a 16-yard scoring run and a 43-yard TD pass in the first half but finished with three turnovers. He had 123 rushing yards but was just 9 of 17 for 91 yards with two interceptions — half his interception total in the first 15 games, when he averaged more than 200 passing yards per game.
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Brown sat for most of a 12-play, 80-yard drive, but was out there for a power sweep to a 1-yard TD on fourth down for a 14-7 lead in the second quarter.
Guyer's Josh Stewart tied the score again on the next possession when he took Walsh's short pass on a crossing route and found a seam up the middle for a 43-yard score.


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The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a neoconservative pressure group that aims "to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it."[1] Re-launched in 2004 to focus on the "war on terror," the CPD was initially created during the Cold War by foreign policy hawks who promoted confrontational ant-Soviet policies. Although many of its 100-plus members continue to publish and organize, particularly around the issue of Iran and its nuclear program, the group has been largely dormant for many years.
As of late 2014, the CPD's homepage featured a document titled "JLENS: Defense for Warfighters and the Homeland," which was reportedly published in October 2014 and authored Chet Nagle, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a director of the CPD. The document argued that deployment in the United States of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS)—described as "the most advanced U.S. Army system to detect, identify, track and engage multiple hostile targets, including cruise missiles, aircraft, ships, small boats, and land vehicles"—is necessary to "defend the American homeland against cruise missiles launched from aircraft and commercial vessels."[2]
ThenWashington Postreported on criticism of JLENS when it was announced the system would be deployed near Washington D.C. in late 2014. "JLENS aircraft have raised privacy concerns,in part because Raytheon, which developed the program for the Army, has tested the surveillance system's ability to use powerful, high-altitude camerascapable of seeing people and vehicles from many miles away. Those tests took place at a military facility in Utah." Responding to concerns from privacy groups, the Army issued a statement saying that the JLENS system deployed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland will "absolutely, 100 percent" not have video cameras.[3]
The CPD homepage is also occasionally used to plug articles published in other venues by CPD members and affiliates. One article, written by CPT member Sol Sanders in November 2014, criticized adiplomatic efforts aimed at reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, claiming: "it is hard to rationalize the past history of this fanatical Muslim regime's secret nuclear efforts and any hope that it would abide by such an agreement, or, indeed, that UN or other surveillance would be more effective than in the past."[4]
History and Track Record
CPD was first founded in 1950 to win public and congressional approval for a post-World War II remilitarization and troop deployment that helped initiate the Cold War. It was then reconstituted in 1976 by a group of Cold War hawks who opposed détente with the Soviet Union.
The the CPD's leadership is dominated by erstwhile Cold Warriors and leading neoconservatives. Reagan-era secretary of state George Shultz and Clinton-era CIA head James Woolsey are CPD's co-chairs. They are joined by two honorary co-chairs, the hawkish former senators Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman.[5]
Other notable members include Kenneth Adelman, Ilan Berman, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Frank Gaffney, New Gingrich, Clifford May, Daniel Pipes, Norman Podhoretz, Randy Scheunemann, Akbar Atri, and Moshe Yaalon.[6] Jeane Kirkpatrick, a CPD member before her death in 2006, said the committee's members are largely "friends of mine," and that "a number of the people involved in it are also members of Freedom House," a neoconservative-linked human-rights organization on whose board of trustees Kirkpatrick once served.[7]
Much of CPD's work is rhetorical, attempting to cast the problem of Islamic terrorism as comparable to the erstwhile Soviet threat. "The CPD has returned to confront the new 'present danger'—militant Islamism and the terrorism that it is spawning," reads the group's mission statement. "Perverting one of the world's great religions, militant Islamists seek to bend the world to their vision. They are eager to attack—indeed, to kill—anyone who stands in their way. In the face of this global threat, which transcends state borders and recognizes no law, complacency and ignorance are as dangerous as military weakness."[8]
CPD has been adamant about casting the "war on terror" in ideological and religious terms. In a 2010 letter to President Obama posted on the group's website (its most recent publication as of 2013) CPD protested the administration's use of the term "violent extremism"—as opposed to " Islamic extremism"—in its National Security Strategy report. "This action contradicts the accepted military intelligence doctrine to properly identify, define, and know your enemy," read the letter. "The CPD believes that militant Islamic regimes and movements represent a serious threat to the United States and other free nations. If we are to meet this challenge, we must understand the beliefs and motivations of those who have dedicated themselves to what they call a 'jihad' against 'infidels' based on their reading of the Koran."[9]
CPD members were enthusiastic backers of the Iraq War and advocated maintaining a long-term U.S. troop presence there. "While drawing down U.S. troop strength can have positive benefits at home," read a 2007 CPD policy paper, "such a move at this time could be seen by insurgents and sectarian militia[s] as an invitation to increase their activity."[10] In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that same year, Lieberman raised the stakes even further, declaring that a troop withdrawal would represent "a victory for Iran and Al Qaeda and the cause of Islamist extremism, and a catastrophic defeat for the United States and all who desire peace and security and freedom in the Middle East and here at home."[11]
CPD members have been similarly hawkish on Iran, frequently accusing Tehran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons—an assessment not shared by U.S. intelligence agencies. "There can be little doubt that if it manages to get the bomb, the Islamic Republic will receive a new lease on life, and dramatically greater regional reach," wrote Ilan Berman in a 2008 policy paper posted on CPD's website. "Simply acquiescing to such a turn of events should not be acceptable." Berman hinted that a military confrontation would be necessary, claiming that "at least one segment of the Iranian leadership is not seeking to avoid conflict with the West, but rather to precipitate one. And that demolishes the assumption that the U.S. can expect to successfully deter the Iranian regime under any conceivable conflict scenario."[12]
Reflecting its Cold War roots, the CPD has also advocated NATO expansion and hawkish weapons programs. In October 2009, for example, the CPD held a roundtable to criticize the Barack Obama administration's approach to missile defense and promote re-funding of such defenses. The roundtable included the showing of a trailer of an alarmist Heritage Foundation video called 33 Minutes, which promoted a number of discredited and/or far-fetched threats—including the use of nuclear ballistic missiles by terrorists groups and the danger of an electromagnetic pulse attack.[13]
The third incarnation of the CPD was officially launched on July 20, 2004 during a press conference in Washington, DC.[14]The group had earlier been listed by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as the cosponsor of a June 16, 2004 symposium on "Iraq's Future and the War on Terrorism." In a press release about the conference, FDD described the CPD as a "venerable Cold Warrior group, now in the process of being recreated." Since its beginnings, CPD has been closely interlinked with FDD. Clifford May, FDD's president, has directed CPD's policy committee. FDD board members Steve Forbes and, before his death, Jack Kemp were also CPD members. Three of FDD's "distinguished advisers"—Woolsey, Gingrich, and Lieberman—are also CPD members.
At the official launch, former CIA director Woolsey purported that the CPD aimed to combat what he called "a totalitarian movement masquerading as a religion." Repeating old neoconservative axioms, he said: "We understand very well that this time, the danger that we must address is a danger to the United States but also a danger to democracy and civil society throughout the world, and it is very much our hope to be of support and assistance to those who seek to bring democracy and civil society to the part of the world, the Middle East extended, to which this Islamist terror is now resonant in and generated from."[15]
Also speaking at the press conference, Lieberman said CPD's objective was "to form a bipartisan citizens' army, which is ready to fight a war of ideas against our Islamist terrorist enemies, and to send a clear signal that their strategy to deceive, demoralize, and divide America will not succeed."[16]
Accompanying the CPD's official launch were full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Times. On the same day, honorary co-chairs Lieberman and Kyl published an op-ed for the Washington Post titled "The Present Danger," which likened the war against terrorism to the Cold War. They wrote: "The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks awoke all Americans to the capabilities and brutality of our new enemy, but today too many people are insufficiently aware of our enemy's evil worldwide designs, which include waging jihad against all Americans and reestablishing a totalitarian religious empire in the Middle East. The past struggle against communism differed in some ways from the current war against Islamist terrorism. But America's freedom and security, which each has aimed to undermine, are exactly the same."[17]
Among Lieberman and Kyl's core concerns were the rising anti-war movement and the criticism of the war by the realists and traditional conservatives. "The leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties have so far stood firm in their commitment to finish the job in Iraq and to fight to victory the war on terrorism," they wrote. "But that bipartisan consensus is coming under growing public pressure and could fray in the months ahead. Although the tide is turning in the war on terrorism, a political undertow in this country could wash out our recent gains. We must not let this happen."[18]
"Despite the splashy media launch," observed Tom Barry, "CPD got off to a shaky official start. On its second day, CPD Managing Director Peter Hannaford was asked to resign from the board after complaints from the Anti-Defamation League and concerns from CPD members that Hannaford was registered as a lobbyist for the nativist Austrian Freedom Party, then headed by the right-wing nationalist Jörg Haider, who has spoken highly of the orderly practices of the Third Reich."[19]
Writing about the membership of CPD and its links to the 1970s version CPD, Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service observed: "A number of members of the new CPD, including [Max] Kampelman, Kemp, Kirkpatrick, [Joshua] Muravchik, Gaffney, and Woolsey himself, overlap with the membership of the advisory boards of the Likud-oriented Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Middle East Forum, or the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon. In addition, a husband-and-wife team who played key roles in the evolution of neoconservatism from the late 1960s to the present and who also were associated with both CDM [Coalition for the Democratic Majority] and CPD-2, former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz and his spouse, Midge Decter (who co-chaired the Committee for the Free World with [Donald] Rumsfeld during the Reagan administration), have also joined the new CPD."[20]
The original CPD, formed at the prodding of the State Department in the years after World War II, was a committee of prominent citizens—Democrats and Republicans—including presidents of universities, foundation directors, and corporate leaders who aimed to engender congressional and public support for the coming Cold War. It aimed to defuse postwar isolationist sentiment within the Republican Party and on the political left by raising fears of a communist incursion.[21]
The second CPD, in contrast, was formed by Democratic Party hawks in opposition to the increasing consensus in favor of détente and arms control agreements within government and among the leadership of both political parties. While it incorporated liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, the Scoop Jackson Democrats—who would later join the Reagan administration and identify themselves as neoconservatives—were the second CPD's driving ideological and operational force. Like its third incarnation, the second CPD was hawkishly "pro-Israel."
The third and current CPD has a narrower political base than either of its predecessors, despite its best efforts to represent itself as nonpartisan. Although it has managed to incorporate some major political figures, such as George Shultz, this CPD has few real connections to corporate America, the leadership of either party, or such social sectors as labor, churches, or ethnic groups.
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[1] CPD, "Mission," http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=54.
[2] CPD, "JLENS: Defense for Warfighters and the Homeland," http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php.
[3] Craig Timberg, "Army now says it won't put cameras on surveillance aircraft in Maryland," The Washington Post, September 3, 2014,http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/03/armys-eyes-in-the-sky-built-to-spot-people-from-5-kilometers-away/.
[4] Sol Sanders, "The Persian Thread," The Committee on The Present Danger, http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3286&catid=4&Itemid=91.
[5] CPD, "Our Team," http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1744&Itemid=89.
[6] CPD, "Our Team," http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1744&Itemid=89.
[7] James Kirchick, "Cold Warriors Return for War on Terrorism," The Hill, June 30, 2004.
[8] CPD, "Mission," http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=54.
[9] CPD, " COMMITTEE ON THE PRESENT DANGER URGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO KEEP "ISLAMIC EXTREMISM" IN NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY," April 28, 2010, http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2042&catid=4&Itemid=102.
[10] CPD, "Moving Forward in Iraq," July 11, 2007, http://committeeonthepresentdanger.org/Portals/4/Activity/Files/IRAQ%20policy%20paper-%2010%20Reccomendations.pdf.
[11] Joseph Lieberman, "A Speech to the AIPAC National Conference," CPD, March 12, 2007, http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1749&catid=4&Itemid=101.
[12] Ilan Berman, " How To Think About The Iranian Bomb," Journal of International Security Affairs," Fall 2008,http://www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86&catid=4&Itemid=102.
[13] Heritage Foundation, 33 Minutes, http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/.
[14] "Committee Borrows Old Name to Fight New Danger," CPD press release, July 20, 2004.
[15] Quoted by Tom Barry, " US: Danger, danger everywhere," Asia Times Online, June 23, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF23Aa01.html.
[16] Quoted by Tom Barry, " US: Danger, danger everywhere," Asia Times Online, June 23, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF23Aa01.html.
[17] Jon Kyl and Joe Lieberman, "The Present Danger," Washington Post, July 20, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html.
[18] Jon Kyl and Joe Lieberman, "The Present Danger," Washington Post, July 20, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html.
[19] Quoted by Tom Barry, " US: Danger, danger everywhere," Asia Times Online, June 23, 2006, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF23Aa01.html.
[20] Jim Lobe, "They're Back: Neocons Revive the Committee on the Present Danger, This Time against Terrorism," Foreign Policy In Focus, July 21, 2004.
[21] Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger, South End Press, 1983.


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Systematic ideology is a study of ideologies founded in the late 1930s in and around London, England by Harold Walsby, George Walford and others. It seeks to understand the origin and development of ideologies, how ideologies and ideological groups work together, and the possibilities of guiding the development of ideologies on a global scale. The basic premise of systematic ideology is that ideology is the central motivator in human affairs; that the characteristics that make up the major ideologies come in sets; that those sets of characteristics form a series; and that the ideological series forms a system.
The group that formed around Harold Walsby and his ideas was a breakaway from the Socialist Party of Great Britain. During the Second World War this group developed a fascination with perceived impediments to mass socialist consciousness among the working class. The theory they developed was expressed by Walsby himself in his 1947 book The Domain of Ideologies and those involved in the group set up an organisation to propagate their views called the Social Science Association, which existed from 1944 until 1956, attracting a number of new recruits during the 'Turner Controversy'. It was later succeeded by the Walsby Society and the journal which emerged from it called Ideological Commentary.
From the 1980s onwards, George Walford, editor of Ideological Commentary and former secretary of the SSA, watered down some of the theory's more obviously elitist elements and even left the SPGB money at the time of his death. He did this on the grounds that although in his view the Party would never help achieve socialism it did perform a valuable function by demonstrating through its application of critical analysis, logical thought and theory the limitations of other political groups that valued these less highly (a perspective which had informed Harold Walsby's decision in 1950 to surreptitiously rejoin the Party through its postal branch and write articles for the Socialist Standard under the pseudonym "H.W.S.Bee").
Ideological Commentary survived until the death of Walford in 1994. As of 2007, barely a handful of systematic ideology's exponents remain.
Walsby, Walford and their group produced a large number of leaflets, pamphlets and other literature over time, a fair chunk of it dealing with the SPGB. The most readable expressions of systematic ideology are Walford's book Beyond Politics, published in 1990, and the pamphlet Socialist Understanding, published ten years earlier.
The theory of the group developed over time and was re-christened 'systematic ideology' by Walford in 1976. Its basic premise was that people's assumptions and identifications (the factors making up their 'ideology') are not explicable in terms of material conditions in general and their relationship to the means of production in particular—and are never likely to be. Instead, there are persistent and distinct ideological groups in society, cutting across social classes and forming a series, with the largest groups being most typically guided in their thoughts and actions by a preference for family, authority, familiarity and tradition. Politically, these preferences find predominant expression in the ideas of the large number of so-called 'non-politicals' in society, and in Conservatism and then Liberalism (the strength of these preferences gradually weakening through the series).
As the series progresses further, the next, progressively smaller, ideological groups seek to repress these identifications and preferences in favour of dynamism, social change, logical thought and the pursuit of theory as a guide to decision-making, these being expressed politically in Labourism, more overtly still in Communism and then, in an ultimate and extreme form, in Anarchism (or 'Anarchosocialism', the purist variety of it allegedly expounded by the Socialist Party of Great Britain). The more an ideology represses the preferences for family, tradition, etc. in favour of social change, dynamism and the pursuit of theory as a guide to action, the fewer in number its adherents are likely to be, with anarchists (or 'anarcho-socialists') being the smallest of all. Those seeking radical social change, so the theory contends, will always be hampered and restrained by the enduring preferences of the largest ideological groups.
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In his book, Beyond Politics, George Walford seeks to analyse ideologies on the basis of its adherents' surface behaviors, their underlying sentiments and assumptions ("ethos"), and underlying cognitions ("eidos"). Of particular interest to him are a single group, the non-politicals, and five major political ideologies, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, communism, and anarchism, which can be listed as a series, with each seeking to "repress" its predecessor. He forms a series of hypotheses about the nature of those six ideologies, observing that they may be gauged upon different dimensions: according to relative size and political influence of its adherents, their relative reliance upon theory over practice, and the degree to which they sought change. He postulates that the non-politicals have the greatest influence and least interest in theory, while anarchists exhibit the least influence and greatest interest in theory, with the rest having mixed degrees of those properties.
He also formulates that each is relative to certain ideological ethos: a) (short-term) expediency, b) (traditional) principles, c) precision, d) (fundamental) reform, e) revolution, and e) repudiation. By his formulations, historical change, development of technology, and development of more complicated social relations can be explained as occurring in stages along this series.
- For Walford, all societies historically begin in a state where a mass of individuals engage in expediency at the hunter-gatherer level. This state of affairs is characterized by short-term individual economic behavior and collective political action.
- Societies grow to have more advanced and secure political systems at the same time that they make better use of agricultural technology with more long-term goals in mind. In the process, economic behavior becomes more and more collectivistic. From then on, the societies engage in wars, and conquer. Empires grow, and create obedience with the mask of traditional principles.
- Finally, societies enter a stage where principles espoused actually begin to be followed, enacted, and made more precise. Similarly, economic production becomes more bureaucratic and rationally goal-oriented.
- The remaining three forms of ethos -- reform, revolution, and repudiation -- are, when taken together, seen to compose the envisioned fourth stage in historical development.
While some other philosophers have expressed the opinion that political liberalism is the peak or end-stage of historical development (see Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" thesis), Walford claims the opposite. "More than ever before, our world is a boiling, bounding, bubbling ferment of ideological novelty, and the rate of change is accelerating. If the ideological system has reached completion it is only in the sense that a newborn child is complete." (Beyond Politics)
Systematic ideology itself was rather hampered by the fact that even if the ideological series it posits is a historically accurate one (which is highly contentious in itself), it has always been unable to adequately explain why this should be so. More precisely, what it is that influences some people and not others to gravitate through the series towards an ideology such as that supposedly represented by the Socialist Party? If some can do it but not others, systematic ideology has yet to coherently articulate why.
Walsby's early version of the theory was clearly hierarchical (with those understanding the theory being the smallest group of all, metaphorically positioned at the apex of a pyramid, just above the SPGB) and it lent itself to criticism on the grounds that it was merely a particularly convoluted type of 'human nature' argument. This was essentially the response outlined in the Socialist Standard's April 1949 review of Walsby's book, called The Domain of Sterilities.
- DAP (June 2004). Getting Splinters. Socialist Standard 100 (1198): 38–41. ISSN 0037-8259.
- Barltrop, Robert (1975). The Monument: The Story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, 149–150, London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0-904383-00-8.
- (April 1949) The Domain of Sterilities (review). Socialist Standard. ISSN 0037-8259.
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Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)
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"Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song)" is one of the many memes in our Minute Memes series and was supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Animation, lyrics, and tune by Nina Paley. Music performed by Evanescent (Vocals & Ukelele: Bliss Blood, Guitar: Al Street). Sound Effects Design by Greg Sextro. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
High-res versions, song, and stills available for download at archive.org. (The direct YouTube page is here.)
Always give credit where credit is due
if you didn't write it, don't say it's by you
just copy the credit along with the work
or else you'll come off as an arrogant jerk
Always give credit where credit belongs
we know that you didn't write Beethoven's songs
pretending you did makes you look like a fool
unless you're Beethoven - in that case, it's cool
A transparent system makes cheating unwise
the simplest web search exposes your lies
no one wants their reputation besmirched
which happens to liars when they are web-searched
Proper citation will make you a star
it shows that you know that we know who you are
Plagiarization will only harm you
so always give credit where credit is due!
Mimi makes a copy of a Beethoven Symphony with a giant copy machine. Trouble starts when Eunice erases Beethoven's name and writes in her own. This makes Eunice look like an ass. Searching the Internet (itself a giant copy machine) confirms that Eunice is a liar. Eunice realizes her mistake and corrects it, but by then everyone's moved on - her plagiarism is barely a blip in the spread of correctly-attributed cultural works through copying.
Whenever I speak about Free Culture at schools, I'm asked "what about plagiarism?" Copying and plagiarism are two quite different things. As Mimi demonstrates with the giant Copy Machine, copying a work means copying its attribution too:
just copy the credit along with the work
When people copy songs and movies, they don't change the authors' names. Plagiarism is something else: it's lying. If Copyright has anything to do with plagiarism, it's that it makes it easier to plagiarize (because works and their provenance aren't public and are therefore easier to obscure and lie about) and increases incentive to do so (because copying with attribution is as illegal as copying without, and including attribution makes the infringement more conspicuous). American Copyright law does not protect attribution to begin with; it is concerned only with "ownership," not authorship. Many artists sign their attributions away with the "rights" they sell, which is why it can be difficult to know which artists contributed to corporate works.
I chose Beethoven to illustrate how copyright has nothing to do with preventing plagiarism. All Beethoven's work is in the Public Domain. Legally, you can take Ludwig van Beethoven's songs, Jane Austen's novels, or Eadweard Muybridge's photographs and put any name you want on them. Go ahead! You're at no risk of legal action. Your reputation may suffer, however, and you definitely won't be fooling anyone. If anyone has doubts, they can use that same copy machine - the Internet - to sort out who authored what. Lying is very difficult in a public, transparent system. A good analog to this is public encryption keys: their security comes from their publicity.
The song says "always give credit where credit is due," but in many cases credit is NOT due. For example, how many credits should be at the end of this film? I devoted about two and a half seconds to these credits:
Movie and Song by Nina Paley
Vocals by Bliss Blood
But I could have credited far more. In fact, the credits could take longer than the movie. Here are some more credits:
Ukelele: Bliss Blood
Guitar: Al Street
Recorded by Bliss Blood and Al Street
What about sound effects? Were it not for duration constraints, this would be in the movie:
Sound Effects Design by Greg Sextro
Every single sound effect in the cartoon was made by someone. Should I credit each one? Crash-wobble by (Name of Foley Artist Here). Cartoon zip-run by (Name of Other Foley Artist Here). And so on: dozens of sound effects were used in the cartoon, and each one had an author. What about the little noises Mimi & Eunice make? Not only could the recording engineer be credited, but the voice actor as well (as far as I know, these were both Greg Sextro).
I included a few seconds of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at the end, which I didn't credit in the movie. Should I have? Why or why not?
I could credit the characters:
& Special Guest Appearance by
Ludwig van Beethoven
I could be more detailed in crediting myself:
Lyrics and Melody by Nina Paley
Character design: Nina Paley
Animation: Nina Paley
Produced by Nina Paley
Directed by Nina Paley
Edited by Nina Paley
Backgrounds by Nina Paley
Color design by Nina Paley
Layout: Nina Paley
Based on the comic strip "Mimi & Eunice" by Nina Paley
And the funder!
This Minute Meme was funded by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
I didn't even make a card for the Minute Memes logo. Should that be in there?
I used a Public Domain painting of Beethoven for the Beethoven character, which is by Joseph Karl Stieler. Who photographed the painting? Who digitized the photograph? Is credit due here?
The ass drawing also came from Wikimedia Commons, where it's credited to Pearson Scott Foresman. But who actually drew it? I have no idea. I doubt that Pearson Scott Foresman could even legally claim the copyright on it to "donate" to Wikimedia in the first place, but there they are, getting credit for it instead of an artist. That's because copyright is only concerned with "ownership," not authorship.
Then there's the software I used, good old pre-Adobe Macromedia Flash. Should I credit the software? What about the programmers who contributed to the software?
I also used a Macintosh computer (I know, I know, when Free Software and Open Hardware come close to doing what my old system does, I'll be the first to embrace it) and a Wacom Cintiq pen monitor. How many people deserve credit for these in my movie?
Mimi and Eunice themselves were "inspired" by many historical cartoons. Early Disney and Fleischer animations, the "rubber hose" style, Peanuts, this recent cartoon, and countless other sources I don't even know the names of - but would be compelled to find out, if credit were in fact due. Is it?
And so on. It is possible to attribute ad absurdum. So where is credit due? It's complicated, the rules are changing, and standards are determined organically by communities, not laws. I had to edit the song for brevity, but I kind of wish I hadn't excised this line:
A citation shows us where we can get more
of all the good culture that Free Culture's for
Attribution is a way to help your neighbor. You share not only the work, but information about the work that helps them pursue their own research and maybe find more works to enjoy. How much one is expected to help their neighbor is determined by (often unspoken) community standards. People who don't help their neighbors tend to be disliked. And those who go out of their way to deceive and defraud their neighbors - i.e. plagiarists - are hated and shunned. Plagiarism doesn't affect works - works don't have feelings, and what is done to one copy has no effect on other copies. Plagiarism affects communities, and it is consideration for such that determines where attribution is appropriate.
At least that's the best I can come up with right now. Attribution is actually a very complicated concept; if you have more ideas about it, please share.
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Re: Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
None now. However, I feel attribution should go to the people who's work is noticed the most. If that's even possible. :)
Re: Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
No license in the video or on this website?!
Well, at least there is one on archive.org.
Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It's not clear whether this work is copyrighted or (if it is copyrighted) how this work is licensed to all of us.
This work's archive.org page says this video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
The footer on this page at QuestionCopyright.org says "our content is released to the public and can be considered to be in the public domain: you may copy, share, excerpt, modify, and distribute modified versions of this and other pages from QuestionCopyright.org".
Would someone with the appropriate authority please correct this confusion?
I didn't ask the question above but I too noticed the ambiguity.
J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Re: Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by camille on
J.B. there is no confusion. CC-BY-SA means you can you may indeed "copy, share, excerpt, modify, and distribute modified versions of this".
Re: Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
The answer is no, you can't both hold copyright (a prerequisite for creative commons) and not hold copyright, either it is in the public domain or you can hold on to the copyright and license it away with e.g. a creative commons license.
Re: Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
To my understanding, it is impossible to actually *put* anything directly into the public domain unless it originates from a government agency. our statement that everything on our site is public domain is just a stance, not a legal reality. Unless current laws change for the better, nothing we create will be public domain until long after we're dead.
Re: Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Please cite your sources for your belief that "it is impossible to actually *put* anything directly into the public domain unless it originates from a government agency". I would like to know more about this.
Re: Licensing for "Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)"
Submitted by camille on
See the question " How can I put a work in the public domain?" here:


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Much of Gaza without electricity as Israel targets area's only power plant
Israel on Tuesday knocked out the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, flattened the house of the top Hamas leader in the coastal enclave and killed more than 100 Palestinians, health officials said, as it intensified bombardments after losing 10 soldiers in militant attacks.
The fierce barrage from land, sea and air marked an escalation in Israel's offensive against Hamas and allied militant factions, as the campaign entered its fourth week with no signs of a breakthrough in international efforts to broker a cease-fire.
An announcement by the Palestine Liberation Organization that Palestinian factions were ready for a 24-hour "humanitarian truce" was rejected by Hamas, reflecting the political divisions that have stymied attempts to end the fighting.
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Even before the shutdown, Gaza residents had electricity for only a few hours a day because fighting had damaged power lines from Israel, which provides some supplementary power in return for payments.
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"My house is not more valuable than the house of any other Gazan, and destroying stones will not break our determination and resistance," Haniyeh said in a statement. "We will resist until freedom."
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The military delayed announcement of the deaths of the five soldiers in the tunnel attack until Tuesday morning, apparently to allow for notification of their families. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the offensive in Gaza until Israeli forces destroy networks of Hamas tunnels, some of which lead across the border into Israel.
A total of 53 Israeli soldiers have died in the campaign, along with two Israeli civilians and a Thai laborer killed by rocket and mortar strikes in Israel.
The difficulty of negotiating a cease-fire was made clear in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday when leaders of the PLO, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, announced that Palestinian factions were ready for a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire and would favorably consider a United Nations proposal to extend the truce for 72 hours.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, the PLO secretary-general, said that following consultations with Hamas and the militant Islamic Jihad group, it was agreed to send a unified Palestinian delegation to Cairo for truce talks "under the PLO umbrella."
But Hamas, whose relations with Abbas have been strained despite a reconciliation accord reached in June with his mainstream Fatah faction, denied that it had accepted any cease-fire initiative.
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Hi all
Some of my friends, their Hotmail account were being hacked and use to send spam mails. Some of their account password were even being changed and they are unable to access it.
Some of them contacted Microsoft to assist and have their password reset, some of them created a new account and re-add their friends.
Rarely, I would even receive friends invitation (accept / decline, etc.) from unknown people with suspicious email address. When you accept them, you would never see them online or the account is not available in facebook or friendster.
In the past, I would even receive junk message (link to threats, etc.) from friends account through Windows Live Messenger. So far I have not receive this for quite some time, so it's ok. I would advise friends who are affected to change their account password, but I am unsure whether would it work?
Why does this happens and how to protect our account from being attacked / make use of?
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Password compromises of web-based services most often occur because of three reasons:
My suggestion would be to avoid invites from suspicious accounts on instant messengers, social media and so forth. If you get a suspicious message from someone you know, try contacting them out-of-band (i.e., using a different means than they used to contact you, such as by sending them a text message if they sent you an email) to notify them about the suspicious message(s) you received.
Changing the password on a compromised account often works, but it is always a good idea to check with the particular service provider to see if they have any specific or additional recommendations about how to secure the account.
Aryeh Goretsky
Great suggestions. One of the things I find troubling is that many of these free services - facebook, gmail, etc, ask for additional personal information to help validate your identity. I struggle with this a bit as it seems counter-intuitive to me. If some of these sites can be hacked, do I want them to store additional information about me ?
So far, I resist adding an more information. Am I being too cautious?
Hi, PeterTWJ.
Although Aryeh addressed your question on the why and how password compromises occur, I'd like to add additional information about the issue you raised regarding compromised Hotmail accounts.
"Some of my friends, their Hotmail account were being hacked and use to send spam mails. Some of their account password were even being changed and they are unable to access it."
The Hotmail team has incorporated security features designed to protect and recover a Hotmail account. These features include those listed below. In addition, the Hotmail team has rolled out a new security feature that will prevent choosing a very common password when recovering a compromised Hotmail account, signing up for a Hotmail account or when changing your password. Also, if you are already using a common password, you may, at some point in the future, be asked to change it to a stronger password.
1) Designate an alternate e-mail address. Be careful when entering the alternate e-mail address as it will need to be confirmed.
When the questions one is asked seem to be... intrusive, I'm a firm believer in providing an answer that I can remember, but is not necessarily truthful. For example, if asked for my birth date, I may give the year I was born, but specify January 1st for the date.
More elaborate answers can be given to questions, especially those required to reset a password, but it is important to store those answers safely offline someplace, so in the event you have forgotten your password or need to change it, you will be able to do so.
In a home environment, I personally feel that an address book—the actual paper kind that you write in with a pen—stored near the computer (but not at it, or at least, out of sight from it) is a great place to keep mnemonics and tips to help you answer password recovery questions for web sites. Keep in mind, though, that you should not write the actual answers to the questions in there, just something that helps you remember your answer.
Aryeh Goretsky
Goretsky Wrote:
"In a home environment, I personally feel that an address book—the actual paper kind that you write in with a pen—stored near the computer (but not at it, or at least, out of sight from it) is a great place to keep mnemonics and tips to help you answer password recovery questions for web sites. Keep in mind, though, that you should not write the actual answers to the questions in there, just something that helps you remember your answer."
I've been using this method at home for many years, not only as a reminder for password recovery questions but also as a reminder for web site passwords. Never use the same password at every site. If that site should be compromised, your account information could be readily available to the hacker. Although there are password generating programs, I got into the habit of creating my own unique password for each web site. (This is probably a result a work environment that necessitated changing the password every 30 days. )
@Corrine wrote:
Never use the same password at every site. If that site should be compromised, your account information could be readily available to the hacker.
This is very good advice.
If it is too much hassle to use a different password for every site, then use passwords for different types of sites, e.g. use a very strong password for financial sites, another strong password for email accounts, and an easier password for general site accounts.
11-29-2011 12:42 PM - edited 11-29-2011 01:00 PM
Let me add other techniques that are being used by the bad guys to hack or steal other people's email accounts:
Phishing - is a form of social engineering broadcast attack focused on stealing credentials or identity information from any potential target. You've already cited an example of this technique -- when you received friend invitations from unknown people with suspicious email addresses. That's how others start their phishing attack.
Weak passwords - some users use common words as their passwords -- which is not a good practice. Avoid using simple words like "password", "12345", "admin", "54321", etc. as your password. It will be easy for the bad guys to guess your password if you use a weak password.
Dictionary attack - this is somewhat related to weak passwords. The bad guys will try to use common words to try to guess the password of your account.
Other technques are quite old-fashioned already, but they still work. So you should still be aware of the following:
Eavesdropping - is the act of secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent. One example is if you're in a public place, the person besides you might be "secretly" listening to the things that you're saying while you're talking to a friend via your mobile phone, face to face conversation, etc. -- waiting for some important information that you may say that might be of use to them.
Shoulder surfing - this is (or should I say was) very common on Internet cafes wherein the person besides you is waiting for you to type in your password and will monitor the movement of your fingers so that they will determine your credentials.
If you're the kind of person that writes their passwords or important information on a piece of paper, make sure that you store it on a safe place (not under the keyboard, on a ref/monitor post it, etc.). Also, be wary of the "dumpster diving" technique that's still being used by some bad guys.
Dumpster diving - is the act of digging through trash in order to obtain information about a target organization or individual. To prevent dumpster diving (or at least reduce its value), all important documents should be shredded or incinerated before being discarded.
And of course, the last and most important thing is end-user education or awareness. There's a good saying that is very common on social networking sites: "Think before you click"
Hope these help.


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Since mid-2003 FreeBSD/amd64 has supported the AMD64 ("Hammer") and Intel® EM64T architecture, and is now one of the Tier-1 platforms (fully supported architecture), which are expected to be Production Quality with respects to all aspects of the FreeBSD operating system, including installation and development environments.
Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) and Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of the two architectures are almost compatible with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 should support them both.
As of this writing, the following processors are supported:
AMD Athlon™64 ("Clawhammer").
AMD Opteron™ ("Sledgehammer").
All multi-core Intel® Xeon™ processors except Sossaman have EM64T support.
The single-core Intel® Xeon™ processors "Nocona", "Irwindale", "Potomac", and "Cranford" have EM64T support.
All Intel® Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later processors
All Intel® Pentium® D processors
Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the "Cedar Mill" core have EM64T support.
Some Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using the "Prescott" core have EM64T support. See the Intel Processor Spec Finder for the definitive answer about EM64T support in Intel processors.
Intel® EM64T is an extended version of IA-32 (x86) and different from Intel® IA-64 (Itanium) architecture, which FreeBSD/ia64 supports. Some of Intel®'s old documentation refers to Intel® EM64T as "64-bit extension technology" or "IA-32e".
Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) configurations are supported.
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FreeBSD/i386 runs on a wide variety of "IBM PC compatible" machines. Due to the wide range of hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible to exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported by FreeBSD. Nevertheless, some general guidelines are presented here.
Almost all i386™-compatible processors with a floating point unit are supported. All Intel® processors beginning with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, Pentium®, Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II, Pentium® III, Pentium® 4, and variants thereof, such as the Xeon™ and Celeron® processors. All i386™-compatible AMD processors are also supported, including the Am486®, Am5x86®, K5, AMD-K6® (and variants), AMD Athlon™ (including Athlon-MP, Athlon-XP, Athlon-4, and Athlon Thunderbird), and AMD Duron™ processors. The AMD Élan SC520 embedded processor is supported. The Transmeta Crusoe is recognized and supported, as are i386™-compatible processors from Cyrix and NexGen.
There is a wide variety of motherboards available for this architecture. Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, and PCI expansion buses are well-supported. There is some limited support for the MCA ("MicroChannel") expansion bus used in the IBM PS/2 line of PCs.
Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally supported by FreeBSD, although in some cases, BIOS or motherboard bugs may generate some problems. Perusal of the archives of the FreeBSD symmetric multiprocessing mailing list may yield some clues.
FreeBSD will take advantage of SMT (Symmetric MultiThreading,
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FreeBSD will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with varying levels of support for certain hardware features such as sound, graphics, power management, and PCCARD expansion slots. These features tend to vary in idiosyncratic ways between machines, and frequently require special-case support in FreeBSD to work around hardware bugs or other oddities. When in doubt, a search of the archives of the FreeBSD laptop computer mailing list may be useful.
Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the
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FreeBSD supports ACPI via the ACPI Component Architecture
reference implementation from Intel®, as described in the
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Craig C. Mello was the first person at University of Massachusetts Medical School to win the Nobel Prize, but he will not be the last. This was the optimistic theme repeated by speakers at a lavish grand opening Wednesday of the $400 million new research building called the Albert Sherman Center.
Craig C. Mello was the first person at University of Massachusetts Medical School to win the Nobel Prize, but he will not be the last.
This was the optimistic theme repeated by speakers at a lavish grand opening Wednesday of the $400 million new research building called the Albert Sherman Center.
Dr. Michael F. Collins, chancellor of the medical school, said the building will allow researchers to change the history of the course of diseases.
The Sherman Center was built with the help of $90 million in state funds from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.
Elected officials, including Gov. Deval L. Patrick, called the building an important investment in the future of the life sciences industry in Massachusetts.
"It is about jobs and investment, but for so many people and families, it's about hopes and cures and therapies," Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray said.
The Sherman Center doubles the medical school's research capacity and will bring under one roof researchers who currently work in different locations. The building was designed to encourage collaboration.
Researchers have started moving into their new labs, a process that will continue through April.
UMass has recruited top-flight scientists over the last five years to work in the new building. Through stem cells, gene therapy, RNA interference and other types of research, they're working on treatments for a variety of ailments including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
The facility, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said, "represents the best of what we in government can do."
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern joked that he was so excited with what he saw in the more-than 500,000 square-foot building that he wanted to donate his body to medical research.
The building is named for Albert "Albie" Sherman, who formerly served as UMass vice chancellor of university relations and is well-known in political circles.
Mr. Sherman received standing ovations from the crowd, which included hundreds of elected officials, faculty, donors and his personal friends.
Robert L. Caret, president of the UMass system, said the ceremony marked a great moment for the university and for the state.
"I think we will look back, as the years pass, and see that we've taken a giant leap forward today," he said.
Research at the medical school is funded largely through federal grants. The school received more than $250 million in research funding in fiscal year 2012, including $153 million from the National Institutes of Health.
But NIH and other federal agencies are at risk of budget cuts as Congress works to reduce the national deficit. Dr. Collins has traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby against the cuts.
Mr. McGovern said in an interview Wednesday that any cut to federal research funding would be "disastrous" and "stupid," and that he would like to increase, not decrease, funding.
"The way you reduce our deficit is, some of it is cuts, some of it is revenues, some of it is investment," he said. "You cannot not invest in the future of this country."
There was almost no mention of the students who attend UMass Medical School at the event, but the Sherman Center also will be used by them. The building includes high-tech classrooms and cozy meeting spaces for the doctors-in-training.
The Sherman Center represents the biggest investment made by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. The state agency is investing $1 billion over 10 years to support the life sciences industry in Massachusetts.


text: Anesthesia & Analgesia's Collection on the Perioperative Surgical HomeShafer, Steven L. MD; Donovan, John F. MDAnesthesia & Analgesia: May 2014 - Volume 118 - Issue 5 - p 893–895 doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000213 Editorials: Editorial Free Author InformationAuthors Article OutlineOutline Article MetricsMetrics From the Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; East Bay Anesthesiology Medical Group, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland, California. Accepted for publication February 14, 2014. Funding: None. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Address correspondence to Steven L. Shafer, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Dr., MC-5640, Stanford CA 94305-5640. Address e-mail to email@example.com. RECUSE NOTE DISCLOSURES REFERENCES The American Society of Anesthesiologists, our primary professional organization in the United States, put a great deal of thought into the concept of the "Perioperative Surgical Home" (PSH). Their Web site articulates a clear and worthy vision for the PSH:a "This new patient-centered model is designed to achieve the triple aim of improving health, improving the delivery of healthcare, and reducing the cost of care. These goals will be met through shared decision-making and seamless continuity of care for the surgical patient, from the decision for surgery through recovery, discharge, and beyond. Each patient will receive the right care, at the right place, and the right time." To move this initiative forward, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has committed resources to create a learning collaborative of up to 50 health care institutions to create an "evidence-based road map" for the PSH.b The American Society of Anesthesiologists has put forward a reasonable rationale why anesthesiologists, among the most specialized and expensive physicians in health care, might be tasked with leading a change in health care delivery. Paraphrasing the comments in a 2013 Webinar by Dr. Mark Warner, Annenberg Professor of Anesthesiology, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota:c our specialty is evolving rapidly in the current health care environment. We know perioperative medicine thoroughly, including the full breadth of surgical practices. We understand, staff, and often run preoperative clinics, postoperative care units, and intensive care units. We have a long and well-recognized history in patient safety. We can demonstrably reduce perioperative complications. We have eclectic skills, such as blood product management, allergy testing, and predictive medicine. Recognizing our increasing role in operating room (OR) management, perioperative informatics, and the extension of our care into the postoperative period with our acute pain management services, one can make a clear case that we have a broad perspective on perioperative care. That's the pitch. It is compelling. The current issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia explores the PSH in detail. Vetter et al.1 from the University of Alabama accept the notion that anesthesiologists are uniquely suited to be the "perioperativist," the physician team leader of the PSH. They note that "Anesthesiologists are uniquely positioned to serve as perioperativists because of their understanding and ability to assess, evaluate, and prepare patients with a multitude of complex comorbidities for their procedure and their ability to manage these complex comorbidities intraoperatively and postoperatively." They outline the requirements for success of the PSH and address the critical question of how anesthesiologists will be compensated for their effort. The Alabama group "has concluded that a health care organization must be willing to 'purchase' the 'value' created by a PSH model." They identify the importance of financial alignment of anesthesia practice with the hospital and provide 3 ways in which it can be achieved. They also note the need to demonstrate the added value of anesthesiologists over hospitalists, who may be viewed by payers and administrators as more "cost-effective" providers. Kain et al.2 are actively developing the PSH at the University of California in Irvine. Drawing on previous experience with Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) protocols, and using LEAN Six Sigma methodology developed by Toyota to standardize production lines, the University of California in Irvine has developed PSHs for joint replacement and urology. They intend to expand the program to all elective surgical patients this year. Despite payment uncertainty, Kain et al.2 advocate that the PSH is "a way for anesthesiologists to move beyond the ORs and the traditional conflict with health care extenders to play a critical role in the changing environment." The preliminary data on their Total Joint PSH show that they were able to implement and run the program, with promising results, but they do not yet have data to demonstrate that the program can improve care, reduce complications, or reduce costs.3 What are the cost reductions that the PSH can reasonably achieve? Drs. Dexter and Watchel4 are among the foremost experts in analyzing the costs and efficient provision of perioperative care. Their analysis in this issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia concludes that many of the proposed cost savings of the PSH, including reduced cancellations, better OR throughput, and reduced length of stay, although potentially achievable, are unlikely to produce overall cost savings when the costs of implementing the PSH are included in the cost analysis.4 Cancellation rates among patients undergoing outpatient surgery or admitted on the day of elective surgery can be as low as 1.6% without additional processes.5 A reduction in patient testing may produce considerable cost savings, as recommended by the "Choose Wisely" program of the American Board of Internal Medicine in partnership with the American Society of Anesthesiologists,d but this important change in practice should happen independently of the PSH. Where the PSH can make a difference is improved matching of staffing and resource allocation to patients' requirements.4 These process improvements require implementation of anesthesia information management systems and the necessary decision support tools (i.e., expertise in informatics).4 For example, Dexter et al. found that inpatients account for approximately half of day-of-surgery cancellations, and that the influence of these on OR efficiency could be scheduling using "statistical forecasts that include the risks of cancellation and of inpatient add-on cases being scheduled." Although the Total Joint PSH at the University of California at Irvine has only recently started, there may be lessons from fast-track total joint programs that have existed for many years. Krenk et al.6 report on the influence of fast-track management of hip and knee replacement surgery at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.6 The fast-track approach included opioid-sparing multimodal analgesia, early mobilization, and rapid discharge home. They found that postoperative cognitive dysfunction 1 to 2 weeks after discharge was lower in their patients than generally reported for this population, although by 3 months the incidence of postoperative cognitive dysfunction was similar to that of previous reports after noncardiac surgery. The accompanying editorial by Crosby, Culley, and Dexter is sobering.7 Complications like cognitive morbidity often require intermediate to long-term care (e.g., skilled nursing and rehabilitation), which are huge drivers of health care costs. As they note, "the perioperative surgical home might decrease hospitalization expense but is unlikely to materially improve outcomes or significantly reduce overall costs unless it thinks about and takes responsibility for postdischarge, long-term results." Reflecting on the suitability of our profession, "thinking about long-term outcomes is unnatural for a profession traditionally focused on today." Miller et al.8 discuss the benefits of their colorectal ERAS program at Duke University. Their ERAS protocol includes avoiding routine bowel preparation, preoperative oral hydration, epidural analgesia, avoidance of systemic opioids, goal-directed fluid therapy, early ambulation, and rapid transition to oral analgesics. The ERAS protocol reduced postoperative ileus, urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, and overall length of stay. A bootstrap analysis suggested that the ERAS intervention may have saved costs, but this does not include the costs of the ERAS implementation itself. Including the latter, there was no indication of overall cost savings. In their accompanying editorial, Cannesson and Kain9 outline the difference between ERAS and the PSH. While the models share similar goals, ERAS is a well-defined clinical protocol that could be considered a subset of the PSH. The PSH is a larger framework that includes coordination of care from the minute the decision is made to operate until 30 days after surgery.9 As they note, the medical management captured in an ERAS protocol will typically apply regardless of where it is instituted, but the PSH will always be adapted to the particular circumstances of each institution, each state, and each country. While it is hoped that the PSH will result in improved outcomes, the authors acknowledge "there are minimal data, however, to support this assertion today." Butterworth and Green10 provide the final reality check for this review of the PSH. They lay out our challenge starkly: "It will be up to anesthesiologists to provide the evidence that it will make sense for a health system to have anesthesiologists administer and provide care in its Perioperative Surgical Home rather than another specialist who is equally bright, equally information technology-savvy, but potentially less expensive." The American Society of Anesthesiologists' vision is compelling. The articles in this month's issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia provide evidence that the PSH can improve patient experience, improve the health of our patient population, and provide moderate cost savings. These articles also discuss frankly the limitations in potential cost savings compared with existing well-run health care delivery systems. Like everything else in life, the PSH is an experiment. If this experiment succeeds, our patients will benefit, health care will become more affordable, and our profession will evolve in new directions. If it fails, at least we stepped up to the challenge of improving health care using the resource most completely under our control: ourselves. Back to Top | Article Outline RECUSE NOTE Dr. Steven L. Shafer is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal. This manuscript was handled by Dr. James G. Bovill, Guest Editor-in-Chief, and Dr. Shafer was not involved in any way with the editorial process or decision. Back to Top | Article Outline DISCLOSURES Name: Steven L. Shafer, MD. Contribution: This author wrote the manuscript. Name: John F. Donovan, MD. Contribution: This author wrote the manuscript.Back to Top | Article Outline FOOTNOTES a Available at: http://www.periopsurghome.info/index.php. Accessed February 13, 2014. Cited Here... b Available at: https://www.asahq.org/For-the-Public-and-Media/Press-Room/ASA-News/PSH-release.aspx. Accessed February 13, 2014. Cited Here... c Available at: http://www.ahaphysicianforum.org/webinar/2013/perioperative-home/index.shtml. Accessed February 13, 2014 Cited Here... d Available at: http://www.choosingwisely.org/. Accessed February 14, 2014. Cited Here... Back to Top | Article Outline REFERENCES 1. Vetter TR, Boudreaux AM, Jones KA, Hunter JM Jr., Pittet FJ. The perioperative surgical home: how anesthesiology can collaboratively achieve and leverage the triple aim in health care. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1131–6 Cited Here... 2. Kain ZN, Vakharia S, Garson L, Engwall S, Schwarzkopf R, Gupta F, Cannesson M. The perioperative surgical home as a future perioperative practice model. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1126–30 Cited Here... 3. Garson L, Schwarzkopf R, Vakharia S, Alexander B, Stead S, Cannesson M, Kain ZN. Implementation of a total joint replacement-focused perioperative surgical home: a management case report. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1081–9 Cited Here... 4. Dexter F, Wachtel R. Strategies for net cost reductions with the expanded role and expertise of anesthesiologists in the perioperative surgical home. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1062–71 Cited Here... 5. Dexter F, Maxbauer T, Stourt C, Archbold L, Epstein R. Relative influence on total cancelled operating room time from patients who are inpatients or outpatients preoperatively. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1072–80 Cited Here... 6. Krenk L, Kehlet H, Hansen TB, Solgaard S, Søballe K, Rasmussen L. Cognitive dysfunction after fast-track hip and knee replacement. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1034–40 Cited Here... 7. Crosby G, Culley DJ, Dexter F. Cognitive outcome of surgery: Is there no place like home? Anesth Analg. 2014;118::898–900 Cited Here... 8. Miller T, Thacker JK, White WD, Mantyh C, Migaly J, Jin J, Roche AM, Eisenstein EL, Edwards R, Anstrom KJ, Moon R, Gan TJ. Reduced length of hospital stay in colorectal surgery after implementation of an enhanced recovery protocol. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::1052–61 Cited Here... 9. Cannesson M, Kain Z. Enhanced recovery after surgery versus perioperative surgical home: is it all in the name? Anesth Analg. 2014;118::901–2 Cited Here... 10. Butterworth JF, Green JA. The Anesthesiologist-directed perioperative surgical home: a great idea that will succeed only if it is embraced by hospital administrators and surgeons. Anesth Analg. 2014;118::896–897 Cited Here... © 2014 International Anesthesia Research Society


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A visitor poses for a photo in a McLaren car on display at the China International Exhibition Center during the Auto China 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, April 20, 2014.
Leading automakers are gathering in Beijing for the kickoff of China's biggest car show, but lackluster growth and environmental restrictions in the world's largest car market have thrown uncertainty into the mix.
More than 1,100 vehicles are being showcased at the auto show, which opens to the public on April 21.
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Remuera Golf Club
One of the best maintained golf course in NZ, Remuera Golf Club is a picturesque parkland course featuring tight fairways demanding accuracy from tee to green. The Club also boasts impressive auxiliary facilities including a 15 bay driving range.
- Year round course
- Host of 2016 NZPFGA Championship
- Graceful woodlands setting
Year built/Designer
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The Club was established in 1934 and has a rich tradition of offering a magnificent experience both on the course and in the Clubhouse.
In recent years the Club has embarked on an ambitious raft of improvements which have seen a redesign of many holes with major upgrade to the greens.
Golfers of all levels will find our 18-hole par-72 course an invigorating challenge. The accompanying practice facilities are among the best in the country with the recent opening of our new-all weather driving range.
At Remuera you will find a golfing atmosphere like no other - born from a strong sense of camaraderie that exists members and the warm welcome that is extended to their guests.
We look forward to your visit.
The Golf Course
Three sets of tees
Signature hole
Hole 3, Par 3. The course's most picturesque, and arguably its most dangerous.
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- Club house with food and beverage
- Locker room with showers
- Club, cart and trundler rental
- Driving range with balls available
- PGA Professional onsite
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Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
…is a breathtakingly beautiful, entirely rural community in Northcentral Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Region.
Sullivan County was named for Senator Charles C. Sullivan who took an active role in passing legislation to create the county. Named for John LaPorte, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania from 1843-1851, Laporte, the county seat, is perched atop the Appalachian Plateau at an elevation of 2,060 feet. Mountains and valleys, forests and farmlands are the terrain in Sullivan County's 478 total square miles including waterways. The county is known for semi-anthracite coal, timber and tourism. The major employers are the timber industry, agriculture, state & county governments. Maple syrup, furniture, candles, baskets, jewelry, art and photography are also made in Sullivan County.
Known as the "Gem of the Endless Mountains," Sullivan County is a unique area with beautiful state parks, (Ricketts Glen and Worlds End) , breathtaking waterfalls, scenic vistas, small villages, natural lakes, quaint shops and a rich heritage that draws people to its region. In addition, the covered bridges located in Forksville, Hillsgrove and Sonestown are entered in the National Register of Historic Places.
Whether graced by spring pastels, summer greens, autumn hues or newly fallen winter snow, Sullivan County's mountains are profoundly beautiful. Summer temperatures average between mid 70's & low 80's. Winter temperatures average in the low to mid 30's. Annual rainfall averages 35 inches; annual snowfall averages 70 inches.