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It's official. Family Practice Management garnered the largest response ever -- 3,088 family physician participants -- for the fifth iteration of its electronic health record (EHR) survey.
This year's offering, titled "The 2012 EHR User Satisfaction Survey: Responses from 3,088 Family Physicians," (Members/Paid Subscribers Only) appears in the November/December Family Practice Management. And as authors of the survey noted upfront, "Where else can you get EHR advice from a few thousand colleagues?"
Kenneth Adler, M.D., co-author of the survey report, confirmed to AAFP News Now that this was the fifth EHR user satisfaction survey undertaken by FPM. The timing of the 2012 survey came just 16 months after what is usually a biennial project.
"We did it sooner this time, given the rapidly accelerated EHR adoption that has occurred since the CMS EHR incentive programs got underway last year," said Adler.
- Family Practice Management has released the results of its 2012 electronic health record (EHR) user satisfaction survey.
- The 2012 survey garnered more physician responses -- 3,088 -- than any other survey in the series.
- Usability issues, lost productivity and lack of vendor support are issues of concern to physicians.
Adler, a practicing family physician, is medical director of information technology for Arizona Community Physicians in Tucson, Ariz., and a certified professional in health care information and management systems.
He noted that more than 200 EHR products are currently on the market. "We want to help family physicians zoom in on the products that their fellow family physicians both use and have found most satisfying," said Adler.
The survey itself fulfills multiple needs. For example, it contains critical information to help FPs select their first EHR system or replace an existing system that's underperforming.
"We'd like to help folks choose well. Making a poor choice can have a hugely negative impact on a practice," said Adler.
The information gathered in the survey also provides feedback to EHR vendors whose products -- at least in the eyes of physician users -- could use some adjustments.
Adler pointed out that only 38 percent of users participating in the survey were highly satisfied with their EHRs. "Usability issues and negative impact on physician productivity continue to be concerns," said Adler. "Vendor support remains an area of weakness for EHR vendors."
Survey Highlights
Survey authors focused on the 31 specific EHR systems that had enough physician response to represent a reasonable variety of opinions.
Practices of various sizes were represented in the survey. Nearly half of survey respondents hailed from practices with 10 or fewer physicians and almost as many came from practices of more than 20 physicians.
In one portion of the survey, participants were asked to note their level of agreement or disagreement with 19 statements about EHRs using these terms: strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree and unsure.
For example, family physicians were asked about the ease of documentation, clarity of information display, help in avoiding mistakes, ability to create notes that promote better patient care, availability of useful preventive medicine tools and ability of the system to process electronic prescriptions.
Survey respondents also were asked about their general satisfaction with their system and if they enjoyed using their EHRs.
Physicians supplied answers that helped study authors make some overall observations based on positive responses. For example, regarding top areas of satisfaction, users were most happy with the way their EHRs
- facilitated intra-office messaging and tasking (60 percent),
- found information (58 percent),
- documented data (57 percent), and
- facilitated electronic prescribing (56 percent).
On the other hand, areas of lowest satisfaction based on positive responses were
- effect on productivity (16 percent),
- effect on the physician's ability to focus on patient care (24 percent), and
- vendor support (36 percent).
The authors noted that only 38 percent of users agreed or strongly agreed that they were highly satisfied with their EHR systems. In addition, 37 percent of respondents -- 1,131 family physicians -- agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "I enjoy using this EHR."
Authors noted that, as in past surveys, their goal was not to pick EHR system "winners," however.
Using Survey Content
How can family physicians best use the information they glean from the 2012 EHR survey?
"Study it," said Adler. "Don't just look at one rating or number. There isn't one best system. Give extra weight to the elements that strike you as most important." For even more data, graphs for the responses to all 19 statements are in an online appendix.
The bottom line for family physicians is that choosing an EHR still isn't easy. "Do your homework and tread carefully," urged Adler. "Unfortunately EHRs still have a long way to go to achieve widespread satisfaction. But do pick one."
Related ANN Coverage
What Do Nearly 2,800 Family Docs Think About Their EHRs?
FPM Publishes Fourth EHR User Satisfaction Survey
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New York Yankees Great Mariano Rivera Cries in Emotional Yankee Stadium Goodbye [VIDEOS]
Who says there's no crying in baseball?
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera made his final appearance as a player at Yankee Stadium during Thursday night's game. When the time came to pull him from the mound, longtime teammates Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter did the duties, after manager Joe Girardi got approval from the umpires.
It was a touching moment that literally left Rivera, Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader and all-around good guy, in tears.
You can also check out Rivera walking out of the bullpen for the final time to the sounds of his trademark song, Metallica's 'Enter Sandman.'

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Once a rugged cow town filled with gamblers and gunslingers, the Colorado capital has grown up. Today, it meets cosmopolitan halfway and learns to play nice while still kicking up a little dust.
Author Rachel Sturtz Photography Jen Judge
ONCE UPON A TIME, Denver was the ultimate Wild West town. Its very creation was almost an accident. No roads led here, no railroads or major waterways. The nearest city at the time of its establishment was 600 miles away. Then one day in 1858, a prospector hit a vein, and Denver was born—sired by a few ounces of gold shiny enough to lure men from across the continent who were looking for more. Together, they built a town where there was no other reason to have one.
But now, the capital of Colorado and the great outdoors enjoy equal footing on the high plains, surrounded by the majestic Rocky Mountains. And the people who live here—some of the healthiest and most active in the country—are more than happy to share. Today, you can finish a fresh cup of Brazilian drip coffee in the time it takes for you to drive to South Table Mountain for a prework mountain bike ride. After sampling a mixologist's happy hour agave cocktail, you can stroll the path along the South Platte River and watch freestyle kayakers flip and twist on the slow-moving water. Or you can learn to rock climb with some of the world's top mountaineers before making it back to enjoy a seven-course tasting menu at one of the best restaurants in the West.
After spending a long weekend in Denver, you'll find that even though it's no longer the Wild West, it's as close as a big city can get.


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The aspirant's first meeting with the Pillar of Severity appears to be within the Zelator grade.
What do the Zelator's rituals and work do to the aspirant and his relationship to his Ruach and Nephesh? If we take the approach to Hod as being the first connection to pure transcendental spiritual Briatic consciousness then would I be correct in saying that there would be a general severe stirring up of the Ruach and it's attachments to the five-sensory bound Nephesh (see path of Shin connecting Guph/Assiah to Hod (pure mind))?
With regards to the path of Resh, is there also therefore a challenge or an attempt to purify and transmute the Ruach which up until then is stuck in or attached to Yetzirah i.e. it's own subconscious i.e the reactive Yesodic Nephesh?
In other worlds this is the first realization that we are in effect transcendental to the outer world as we exist in the realm of the pure and infinite? This is the Sat Chit Ananda of Hinduism i.e. joy, knowledge and eternality?


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The Occupy movement has portrayed itself as a model of self-government. There are no leaders to impose their will. Assemblies meet and make decisions based on consensus.
Local officials in California dealing with the movement say negotiations are difficult because no one is in charge. And no one is in charge because of the group's insistence on reaching consensus.
A rule in the Occupy LA camp requires a 90 percent vote of the protestors' assembly to do anything.
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As it happens, supermajorities and consensus are at the heart of the state of California's difficulties in governing itself and managing its budget. In supermajority systems, a small minority can frustrate the will of the majority.
One would think that Occupy would understand that, given its rhetoric about the 1 percent having too much power as opposed to the 99 percent.
But in its self-governance, Occupy has modeled itself after the kind of system it says it's against.
If Occupy doesn't want to end up like the state, the movement and its members might think about adopting the principle of majority rules.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the New York Times reported on Monday, is now using the prosecutorial discretion it received from ICE chief John Morton, who permitted the discretion in a memo last month and offered a DREAM list of criteria with which to exercise that discretion. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cemented Morton's policy last week with a letter to Congress.
Some cynics have noted that the cases the Times picked to represent the "victims" of this nation's immigration policy could have come straight from central casting.
Hard Cases
The Times for August 22 opened its reportage with the tale of Manuel Guerra:
The call came in the morning to the lawyer representing Manuel Guerra, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Florida who had been caught in a tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation.
With the news early Thursday that federal immigration authorities had canceled his deportation, Mr. Guerra became one of the first illegal immigrants in the country to see results from a policy the Obama administration unveiled in Washington that day. It could lead to the suspension in coming months of deportation proceedings against tens of thousands of immigrants.
Guerra came to do God's work, the Times averred:
For Mr. Guerra, who said he wants to remain in the United States to study to become a Roman Catholic priest, the news "was like something from above, from heaven. I don't want to go back to Mexico," he said, "and I've been fighting this for five years."
Though the Times did not mention why Guerra cannot attend seminary in Mexico, or why a future priest was willing to break the law, it said, "He came to this country to escape a violent gang in Mexico." The newspaper then noted that the Obama administration's amnesty program is well underway:
A working group from the Homeland Security and Justice Departments met Friday to initiate a review of about 300,000 deportation cases currently before the immigration courts.
Under the policy, immigration authorities will use powers of prosecutorial discretion in existing law to suspend the deportations of most immigrants who, although they have committed immigration violations (which generally are civil offenses), have not been convicted of crimes.
In particular, officials will look to halt deportations of longtime residents with clean police records who came here illegally when they were children, or are close family of military service members, or are parents or spouses of American citizens.
Obama, Napolitano and Morton will also make exceptions for "family," the paper reported, including the kind now legally allowed in New York. Reported the Times, "The administration's announcement also had an immediate impact on a case in Denver, where an immigration judge on Friday postponed the deportation of Sujey Pando, a lesbian from Mexico legally married in Iowa to an American from Colorado, Violeta Pando.
Although federal law does not recognize same-sex marriages, administration officials said they would consider same-sex spouses as "family" in their review of deportation cases.
The judge, Mimi Tsankov, cited the flux in laws and policies affecting same-sex cases in delaying a decision on Sujey Pando's deportation at least until January, said Lavi Soloway, a lawyer for the couple.
Having unilaterally enacted the failed DREAM Act, the administration has now declared lesbian marriages legal for the purposes of the meeting the criteria in the act.
"Latino" activists, as they wish to be styled, and their revanchist leaders are celebrating. "This is the Barack Obama I have been waiting for, that Latino and immigrant voters helped put in office to fight for sensible immigration policies," Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told the Times.
Said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, "We will closely monitor the implementation of this process to ensure that it is applied robustly and that it brings public safety squarely into focus."
Logical Move
Napolitano and Morton laid the groundwork for the administration's final usurpation of congressional prerogative on immigration law. In March, Napolitano announced that ICE had stopped deporting illegals who met the criteria in the DREAM Act; i.e., that the illegal alien in question came here as a child, is attending school, or is enlisted in the military. The DREAM Act supposedly requires that amnestied illegals be of "good moral character," but that does not mean that hardened criminals and terrorists need not apply, as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) noted about the resurrected but now superfluous DREAM Act of 2011 of leftist Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
Said Napolitano: "If they [illegal aliens] truly meet all those criteria, and we see very few of them actually in the immigration system, if they truly meet those [criteria], they're not the priority. The reason we set priorities is so that the focus could be on those in the country who are also committing other illegal acts."
Morton backed that statement, then, in late June, published a memorandum permitting his agents "prosecutorial discretion" in pursuing deportations. Included in Morton's memo was a long list of criteria that mirrored those in the DREAM Act but included even more. The list was long enough that ICE agents could excuse virtually any illegal alien from deportation for any reason.
In August, Morton ended agreements with 40 states to participate in the federal Secure Communities program, through which local authorities shared fingerprints of suspects with federal authorities. The program stopped after illegal alien lobbyists raised a ruckus, claiming that "lesser offenders," who did not deserve deportation, were caught in the Secure Communities dragnet.
Mandating a review of 300,000 possible deportations was the next logical step for President Obama. Napolitano informed Congress of the move last week. "From a law enforcement and public safety perspective, DHS enforcement resources must continue to be focused on our highest priorities," she wrote to Congress. "Doing otherwise hinders our public safety mission — clogging immigration court dockets and diverting DHS enforcement resources away from individuals who pose a threat to public safety."
Gov. Jan Brewer, who is battling the Obama administration as well as members of Congress about her state's tough immigration law, called Obama's move a "backdoor amnesty."
Latino activists had threatened to withhold support from Obama in the next election if he did not mandate the failed DREAM Act into law.
Related Articles:
Napolitano: Unpassed DREAM Act Now the Law
ICE: State Cooperation Not Needed to Run Secure Communities Program
Circumventing Congress: Failed Dream Act Mandated by ICE Director
Senator Durbin: An Illegal Alien Could Become President
Sessions: DREAM Acters Lying About Bill
Photo: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest a suspect during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Jan. 17, 2007.: AP Images


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The Democrats' 'Third Way' Quarrel is a Fight for the Future
There was a big dust-up in the Democratic Party last week, triggered by a somewhat incoherent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal from the leaders of a Wall Street-funded "think tank"/lobbying group called Third Way. Many of the responses dealt with the op-ed's attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but don't be distracted by that. As Sen. Warren would undoubtedly agree, the issues involved are much more important than the personalities.
As politicians affiliated with Third Way hasten to distance themselves from the op-ed, the question remains: Why are Democrats affiliated with a group which works so strenuously to gut Democratic programs? Voters deserve more than platitudes from these politicians. They deserve clear answers about the issues.
This is not an "inside baseball" story about politics. It's not over-hyping to say that it's a battle for party control whose outcome could affect every household in the country. If this quarrel is to be remembered – and it's incumbent upon genuine progressives to make sure that it is – it should be remembered as an attempt by the corporate class to retain control of the Democratic Party and limit the leftmost limits of political and economic debate.
In our two-party system, this struggle could determine whether voters are offered a genuinely democratic and equitable economic agenda anytime in the near future.
Out of Hand
Clearly Jonathan Cowan and Jim Kessler blundered in writing this editorial. It's badly written and its arguments are poorly constructed – unlike other, much slicker Third Way materials. Worse, it's misleading. (We discussed the content here. Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times did an excellent analysis.)
At times the op-ed descends into vituperation and becomes, as Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) noted, "out of line" and "really ugly." We said there seemed to be "an almost palpable air of desperation" to it as well. That suspicion seems to be borne out in later remarks by co-author Jim Kessler, who said they wrote it because of Sen. Warren's support for a bill to expand Social Security. Said Kessler:
"She is a very compelling elected official and national figure. Her involvement in that particular bill, we just looked at it and said 'okay, this seems to be starting to get out of hand.'"
"Out of hand" is a telling phrase for a corporate-backed faction which has tried to keep the leftmost limits of debate very much in hand and under tight control. It has done so with striking success for decades, thanks in large part to its ability to influence politicians like Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Cui Bono?
One of this faction's key goals is to roll back three of the Democratic Party's signature achievements: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It is a measure of their power and influence that they've been able to get so many Democratic politicians to support Social Security cuts when public opinion is so strongly against them. (This poll even shows that large majorities would pay more in payroll taxes in return for stronger Social Security benefits.)
In the words of a Latin phrase beloved by district attorneys everywhere, "Cui bono?" Who benefits?
There are only two populations in the United States who clearly stand to benefit from these cuts – high earners, who would avoid paying more taxes if the payroll tax cap is raised, and the Wall Street banks which would become even more profitable if they were able to manage more retirement funds.
Third Way is very much a creature of Wall Street (as is documented here.) Its banking connections help explain these positions. They also explain why the self-described "think tank" is constantly raising the alarm about Medicare costs without mentioning the recent slowdown in health care cost increases – or, more tellingly, the negative effect private investors like those backing Third Way are having on our health care economy.
(For more on the effect of private investment on health care costs, see this Alternet story.)
Comeback Kids
"That Social Security plan was the final moment for us," said Kessler of Sen. Warren. "Final moment" is a telling turn of phrase. Polls show that the public wants more genuinely progressive policies than those it is receiving from the Democratic Party leadership. Sen. Warren's popularity seems like a harbinger of that party's potential move to the left – a move that would render the "have it both ways" cynicism of the Third Way crowd obsolete.
Economically they're already obsolete. The Clinton/Third Way/Democratic Leadership Council ideology – which typically markets itself as "centrism," even though its economic policies are far to the right of public opinion – was thoroughly discredited by the financial crisis of 2008. That crisis was caused in large part by Wall Street deregulation which they pushed, and it exacerbated the growing wage inequality and loss of social mobility which has devastated middle class and lower-income Americans.
And yet, their brand of Wall Street-friendly "centrism" made a remarkable comeback after 2008, thanks in large part to the Obama White House's influence on the Democratic Party – and to corporate money's influence on the political process. Five years after the crisis, the entire nation is still seeing the disastrous effects of their economic policies on our nation's most intractable issues: unemployment, wage stagnation and the lack of opportunity for most Americans.
Lip Service
Even corporate Democrats are beginning to recognize that our society's increasingly unjust economy is becoming a political liability. It has become fashionable for them to talk about "inequality" (while remaining cautious and/or evasive when it comes to solutions). In one sense, at least, that's a step in the right direction. At least it's being discussed in the corridors of power – although it will only become meaningful when it's backed up by concrete policies.
Until then, it's clearly de rigueur to at least pay lip service to principles that Cowan and Kessler sneeringly dismissed in their op-ed as "economic populism." (One can only imagine the phone calls they received after it was published.)
The Third Way Two come across like choir members singing from last year's hymnal. Today's corporate Democrats are expected to at least sing populism's praises. Corporate Dems now seek to co-opt, rather than alienate, the many Americans who support Sen. Warren and the agenda she represents.
Musical Co-Chairs
This shift in political emphasis is one of the reasons why many corporate Democrats hastily distanced themselves from Third Way's op-ed.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) quickly called upon Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania candidate for governor and "co-chair" of Third Way, to resign from the group. Schwartz declined to do that, but she called the op-ed "outrageous" and hastily announced her support for the Social Security increases that had sparked Cowan and Kessler's ire against Warren in the first place.
Rep. Joe Crowley responded to progressive pressure by saying he disagreed with Third Way on Social Security but would "continue to work with them." Rep. Ron Kind objected to the singling out of Warren by name and said he disagreed with the idea that "economic populism is dead." Rep. Jared Polis said, "I like Elizabeth Warren. I like Third Way. I hope they can learn to get along better."
They are engaging in a kind of misdirection when they make this controversy about Elizabeth Warren and "getting along better." This is a question of policy, not personalities. Schwartz and the other Democrats associated with Third Way need to be asked precisely where they stand on that group's policy prescriptions – not because everything funded by the wealthy is bad, but because corporate money and influence is corrupting the political process.
The Agenda
By lending their names to the Third Way letterhead, these politicians are endorsing its agenda – not in part, but in full – presumably because this affiliation gives them access to money and power. If that's not the reason, then the public deserves an explanation, especially considering the following: Third Way is largely funded by members of an industry with a well-documented record of fraud; that industry has enjoyed enormous government favors and its members have not been legally called to account for their misdeeds; and Third Way promotes policies which are beneficial to its patrons and hurtful to the middle class.
(And it does so while claiming to be "progressive" – a term which is quickly losing its meaning.)
Democrats who choose to be publicly affiliated with a group like that should therefore expect to be asked: How can we count on you to vote in the public's interest when it clashes with Wall Street's?
Third Way has taken a number of strong and specific policy stands. It's not enough to denounce an op-ed. Democrats who affiliate themselves with Third Way need to answer some questions for the voters, such as:
- Do they agree with Third Way's support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a job-killing "free trade" deal that also gives corporations and the nationals of other countries' unprecedented control of U.S. regulations and courts?
- Do they agree that it's "soaking the rich" to raise the top marginal tax rate for billionaires to 49.5 percent (it was 93 percent under Eisenhower), or that increasing taxes for the wealthy is a "purely ideological fix"?
- Do they support Third Way's pro-fracking and pro-nuclear industry positions?
There are those in our nation's capital who argue that it is a "witch hunt" to ask these questions. Only in Washington is it considered a form of persecution to ask an elected official where they stand on the issues.
Fault Lines
We're living through tough economic times – well, most of us are, anyway. In the bubble-fueled Clinton economy of the 1990s, it was easier to obscure the economic divisions that have been tearing this country apart for decades. Unfortunately for the Third Way crowd, nowadays the fault lines are much clearer.
President Obama quickly abandoned his Third Way-ish habit of claiming that "Wall Street and Main Street rise and fall together" as it became increasingly clear that in most cases the opposite is true. The "old myths" – to use a presidential phrase – were shattered in the 2008 crisis.
Wall Street deregulation shattered the economy. The banks are now bigger and more concentrated than they were before the crisis. You can't stand with them, support corporate-friendly tax and trade policies, push for "entitlement" cuts with cynical and misleading arguments – and still claim to be a "progressive" who opposes wealth inequality.
Final Moments
The preferred solutions of the Democratic corporate class – continued deregulation and under-regulation of finance and industry, job-killing trade agreements, and the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts they've been pushing relentlessly for 20 years – are disliked by American majorities. They are economically disastrous for most Americans. And yet, Big Money's stranglehold on the political process has left the voters bereft of alternatives.
Washington operators like Jonathan Cowan and Jim Kessler aren't really afraid of Sen. Warren. They're afraid of what she represents, both politically and economically.
They're right to worry. This isn't a fight about Cowan and Kessler, or about Elizabeth Warren, or about whether the Democratic Party is a "big enough tent" to hold people of varying opinions. It's a fight to determine whether that party will represent the public's interests unsparingly in the years to come, or will continue to be swayed by corporate interests.
For too long the public has been deprived of the chance to vote for a party that wholeheartedly represents its economic interests. When voters come to understand the Third Way agenda and what it stands for, the resulting political shift could lead to corporate centrism's "final moment" as the dominant faction of the Democratic Party.


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Half a century ago, the Baltimore Bullets came into the world without much fuss. There was no parade for the city's new National Basketball Association team. The opening night crowd fell far short of a sellout. And the Bullets bowed meekly to the world champion Boston Celtics, as they would the first nine times they played them.
A storybook beginning, it wasn't. But that game — a 109-95 loss to the dynastic Celtics in the Civic Center on Oct. 16, 1963 — christened the Bullets' 10-year stay in the city that would thrill to the feats of stars to come: the acrobatic dunks of Gus Johnson, the ball-handling artistry of Earl Monroe and the rugged inside play of Wes Unseld. Hall of Famers, all.
The team took the same name of a former professional basketball team that played in Baltimore in the 1940s and 50s. And while that 1963 season fell short of fans' expectations — the Bullets finished 31-49, having lost 12 of their first 15 games — there were highlights. Fifty years ago Thursday, they won their first game, a 115-113 comeback victory over the New York Knicks.
Déjà vu? This Thursday the Washington Wizards, successors to the Bullets, play the Knicks in a preseason game at Baltimore Arena at 7 p.m.
In the decade that the Bullets played here, before moving to D.C., they won four division titles, made the playoffs six times and advanced to the NBA championship series in 1970-71.
The seeds were sown early on. Both Johnson and Kevin Loughery, starters on the team that would reach the league finals, played for the Bullets in 1963-64. So did Gene Shue who, seven years later, would coach Baltimore's NBA runners-up.
"It was, as I remember, a good young ball club," said Bob "Slick" Leonard, 81, then the head coach. "Those guys played hard, ran the fast break and had a good time. The only thing they didn't do was win."
"Thrown into the breach"
The fledgling Bullets were raw and inexperienced, a third-year expansion team uprooted from Chicago — where they'd twice finished last, under different nicknames — with the promise of 3,000 season tickets sold.
They were a cast of promising newcomers and journeymen and were led by the league's two most recent Rookies of the Year: Walt Bellamy, an enigmatic 6-foot-10 center who could score 48 points one game and be chewed out for loafing the next, and Terry Dischinger, a second-year forward with a killer jump shot but — at 6-6 and 190 pounds — little heft.
None of the five regulars were older than 25. Even the volcanic Leonard was, at 31, the youngest coach in the nine-team NBA. That immaturity cost them at crunch time.
"We were in a lot of ball games, but we just couldn't get over the top," recalled Leonard, now a broadcaster for the Indiana Pacers, whom he coached to three American Basketball Association championships.
Of the Bullets' 80 games in 1963, 24 were decided by three points or less. They won only nine of them, mostly because they lacked leadership down the stretch, said Rod Thorn, then a rookie guard and the Bullets' first-round draft pick from West Virginia.
"We were thrown into the breach to play without a true playmaker on that team," said Thorn, currently president of basketball operations for the NBA.. "If we'd had a real experienced point guard, one who knew what he was doing, we could have been pretty damn good."
Thorn was one of two rookie starters. The other was Johnson, a strapping 6-6 power forward from Idaho who arrived in training camp at Fort Meade virtually unknown. That changed quickly.
"The first day, Slick tells Dischinger, Gus and myself that he wants us to play one-on-one against each other," Thorn said. "So I play Gus, never having heard of the guy, and he's so strong and quick that he destroys me. Then Gus plays Terry and destroys him too.
"I'm thinking, my God, how can this guy be only a second-round draft choice?"
Fans embraced Johnson, who wore spiffy clothes and a wide grin that showed the gold star which had been drilled into his front tooth.
"I used to sing the old Texaco jingle to Gus, remember? 'You can trust your car to the man who wears the star,'" said Don Kojis, 74, a rookie forward on that team.
On Dec.10, Kojis was on the court in a game against the San Francisco Warriors when Johnson stole the ball, raced the length of the floor and scored on a swooping dunk, shattering the Plexiglass backboard in the Oakland Auditorium.
"I was nearby when Gus broke it and all of the glass kind of hit my arms," Kojis said. "I had Band-Aids up the wazoo for the rest of the game. I said, 'Thanks, Gus.'
"He was proud of having done it."
The Bullets improved as the season wore on. On Nov. 30, they won back-to-back games for the first time and, two months later, managed a six-game winning streak. Crowds were small, save on giveaway nights. The club averaged nearly 5,000 fans, sixth best in a league struggling to find its niche despite marquee players such as Bill Russell (Boston), Wilt Chamberlain (San Francisco), Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati Royals) and Jerry West (Los Angeles Lakers).
"Pro basketball hadn't really caught on everywhere," Shue said. "The college game was much better, with more support."
A two-time All-American guard at Maryland who'd prepped at Towson Catholic, Shue came to Baltimore in a trade with the lowly Knicks six games into the season. Ecstatic, he caught a 6 a.m. train from New York.
"Honestly, my career was about over," said Shue, 81. "Returning here for my last year was incredible."
A day earlier, the Bullets had acquired Loughery, a little-used guard, in a trade with the Detroit Pistons.
"Best thing that every happened to me," said Loughery, 73, who blossomed in his eight years here. The Bullets liked his fiery demeanor, which showed when a fight broke out in a game against San Francisco at the Civic Center in December. During the melee, the Warriors' Guy Rodgers punched Loughery, knocking out his dental plate. A Bullets' fan chased Rodgers into the stands, and referee Tom Burch ripped his own trousers down the back trying to intervene.
A month later, when the Warriors returned to town, Loughery was waiting.
"I'd play this one if I had to do it in a wheelchair," he told reporters. The Bullets won, 93-86, led by Loughery's 20 points.
"Good year ... great town"
The coach liked such spunk. Leonard, who'd played for the club in Chicago, was tossed from several Bullets games and once simply walked off the court, disgusted with the officiating, with four minutes left.
Bellamy's attitude drove Leonard nuts. While the All-Star center averaged 27 points and 17 rebounds, he was prone to an ennui that could last for games.
"Walt was talented, for sure, but he wasn't all that excited about playing every night. You had to get on him," Leonard said.
In January, fed up with his star during a three-game losing streak, the coach slapped Bellamy with a $200 fine for "lack of hustle." A day later, Leonard fined him again.
"He's the highest-priced player on this club and it's about time he starts playing like one," the coach said.
That night, Bellamy managed 37 points and 27 rebounds in a victory over the St. Louis Hawks. Two games later, he had 33 points and 33 rebounds as the Bullets ripped off four wins in a row.
Leonard's message got through, players said.
"Bob would later prove himself to be a great coach," Dischinger said. "He was just starting out then, but he knew the game, he expected you to fill your role and he made that clear."
At the same time, after a tough workout, you might find the coach and his players having a beer together. Or playing a round of golf.
"And on the way home from practice, I'd stop at [Colts tackle] Jim Parker's liquor store [in Northwest Baltimore] where he and I would just sit on a bench and talk about sports."
Has it been 50 years?
"No way," Thorn said.
"I'm shocked," Loughery said.
The Bullets are gone. Memories live on.


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Does the fact that more movies are created by artificial intelligence mean we'll be seeing more movies about artificial intelligence?
It's taken Isaac Asimov's i, Robot over 50 years to make it to the screen– under its own name, at least. Other films have borrowed as much from Asimov as this one (which is officially "suggested by" the stories in i, Robot) without giving him credit.
It will be enough for some people that a summer movie has ideas, not just a lot of mindless action and special effects. Others will note that some of those ideas would have seemed old when Asimov wrote the first of his stories (in 1940).
Without giving away too much, robots take the place of the aliens in The Day the Earth Stood Still who tried to keep humankind from destroying the planet. (What part of "Klaatu barata nicto" don't you understand?) An additional twist, however, turns it into a contemporary political allegory in which the cure is worse than the disease. At least that's one reading, and you can compare it to your own after you see the picture.
A little old-fashioned thinking is justified by having a hero (not from Asimov) who's a retrohead. Police Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) exhibits this quality by listening to a couple of records from the 1960s and '70s (it's now 2035) and wearing vintage sneakers from 2004 (the better to promote the brand).
The three laws of Robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Now that's Asimov! The laws have been preserved in this adaptation by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman, the latter an Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind. They haven't written as good a screenplay as Alvin Sargent did for Spider-Man 2, but it's not for lack of trying.
One of their lesser inventions is a parable about intolerance. Spooner is prejudiced against robots and, you see, he's black; so he speaks in paraphrases of things people used to say against blacks and now say about gays or whoever's left to discriminate against. When we learn that robot-master Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) replaced Spooner's arm and some other body parts with robotic prosthetics, we sense there may be some self-loathing going on.
The plot kicks in with Dr. Lanning's death, supposedly a suicide, but Spooner thinks not. He finds some pretty conclusive evidence but still can't get his boss (Chi McBride) to believe him. It might be an interesting movie if Spooner really were as paranoid as everyone thinks he is, but Homey don't play dudes who are wrong.
Dr. Lanning worked for U.S. Robotics, a company run by Lawrence Robertson (Bruce Greenwood), "the richest man in the world." They're about to foist a new generation of robot, NS-5, on the public, and it may be that this year's model is too intelligent– and willful– for our own good.
Speaking of willfulness, i, Robot is full of Will Smith and whatever he's full of, including humor. He never really gets the girl, despite the usual antagonistic, romantic comedy buildup.
"You are the dumbest smart person I know," he tells Dr. Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan, fixed up to remind you of Sandra Bullock), whose job is to make robots seem more human. She counters with, "You are the dumbest dumb person I know." If one of the writers has a child in third grade, you know where that dialogue came from.
Another major character is Sonny (Alan Tudyk– at least part of him), the robot who's Spooner's prime suspect in Dr. Lanning's death. Tudyk and the effects team invest Sonny with more personality than most of the human characters.
The effects are the usual, "ho-hum it's awesome!" stuff, mostly involving robots, anywhere from one to hundreds at a time. When they attack en masse they sometimes recall the Agent Smiths in The Matrix Reloaded.
Asimov's writing may have inspired such other screen robots as Robby in Forbidden Planet and hissable Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Those were certainly better films than i, Robot, and I have a soft spot for the SpielBrick collaboration, A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
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posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 10:21 am
I am estimating a WLSMV model where two of the predictors are correlated. One of the predictors is age (with a mean of 25) and the other is a variable that has been centered. Within the model statement, I correlate these using the "WITH" statement but, in the output, the resulting estimate is greater than 1 (see below). Can you please shed light on what is happening?
Estimates S.E. Est./S.E. Std StdYX
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Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 10:43 am
Means, variances, and covariances of observed exogenous variables should not be part of the estimated model. The model is estimated conditioned on these variables. You should remove the WITH statement. When you include it in the model, you make unnecessary distributional assumptions about these variables.
The estimate you are receiving is a covariance not a correlation.
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I'm trying to replicate a comparison between fixed- and random-effects models in Mplus with a categorical dependent variable, WLSMV estimation with Theta parameterization. How might I specify that the covariance between an observed exogenous variable and the exogenous latent variable (the latent time-invariant variable) is 0 per the random effects specification? The two examples I've seen have continuous DVs and use ML estimation and specify "eta WITH
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" with no particular issues (where "eta" is the latent time-invariant variable and "IV" is one of the exogenous predictors). However, when I do the same and try to run a difftest to check the chi-square difference between the fixed and random effect condition, the models are not nested. I think this has something to do with covariances among the exogenous variables. Can I specify covariances between the latent time-invariant variable and each observed exogenous variable in the fixed effects model, then set them to zero for random effects? Any thoughts you have would be most appreciated. Thanks, Dana
Dana Garbarski
posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 10:53 am
I misspoke above about the nesting of the models: the "fixed effects" model isn't purely a fixed effect model. The issue is that in the examples I'm looking at, the IV is not part of the estimated model when "eta WITH
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Bengt O. Muthen
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With a dichotomous DV and WLSMV, the IV should not become part of the estimated model when you say eta ON IV or eta ON
. IV becomes part of the model when you include it in WITH or mean and variance statements. If this doesn't help, please send to Support.
Dana Garbarski
posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 - 6:29 am
Thank you for your response. I see now that the default is that the latent time-invariant variable "eta" is not correlated with the predictors, which is why "eta on
" did not change the model. If I want eta to be associated with other exogenous variables in the model, I need to specify "eta on IV" for each exogenous variable, then constrain to 0 to test whether they need to be associated. Does this seem right to you? Thanks again, Dana
Linda K. Muthen
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You can add them but I would not constrain the non-significant ones to zero. This may not be replicated in another sample.
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SQL Saturday Orlando (Friday, September 13 – Saturday, September 14). On Friday, I'll be presenting a full day preconference seminar entitled "Real World SSIS: A Survival Guide". Since this will be held on Friday the 13th, you can bring your black cat for free with paid admission*. I'll be staying for the main event the following day, and will present a brand new presentation entitled "Maximizing SSIS Package Performance".
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SQL Connections (Monday, September 30 – Thursday, October 3). I get to present two sessions at the national SQL Connections event in Las Vegas. I'll be again delivering "Maximizing SSIS Package Performance" (this is turning out to be a popular selection) along with "Cleaning Up Dirty Data in SSIS". Both of my sessions are on Tuesday, which means I've got three unallocated days in Las Vegas. Is there anything fun to do in Vegas for three days?
Biml Workshop (Tuesday, October 15). I've been spending a lot of time using Biml lately, and I've finding it to be a centerpiece in my toolset these days. In this full day workshop, I'll be presenting with Andy Leonard and Scott Currie to demonstrate how Biml can be used as a tool for rapid development and easy maintenance of SSIS packages.
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- Mark Flavin
- 23-03-2009
Just Plain Fun
I listened to this book while I was recovering from the flu and it was amazingly fun. John Ringo delivers the story in a way which is satisfying for the sci-fi enthusiast the gun geek and arm chair generals alike.
Combined with the masterful reading delivered by Marc Vietor. While I wish there could have been a bit more of range in the voices Marc Vietor did an awesome job of delivering the gruff battle toughened voice of the main character and the click-clack sounds of the "Tchpth".
While I wish I could say I saw the ending coming I did not, however it was immensely satisfying. The action pace combined with intrigue that was woven into the story definitely has me coming back for more!
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- Dr. Daniel Chapman
- 12-06-2014
Another heads up!
Why pay $4.95 for this "Audio Book Du Jour" when the kindle edition is $0.00 (Caution there are 2 Kindle editions - make sure you select the right one) and after you "purchase" that book the Audible audiobook is $1.99. Obviously this is not a review but I didn't know where else to post.
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- Trip Williams
- 09-05-2013
You SURELY get your Money's Worth With Ringo!
Let me say up front, I may be a bit biased when it comes to Ringo's Writing.. the man is a prolific writer, turning out an INCREDIBLE number of books in bursts along the way, each with so much accuracy and detail it's amazing! I've had the pleasure of covering some of the same ground as Ringo being 11Bravo, and have spent much time at Dragon*Con talking with him and his wife out at the pool-side Breezeway (surrounded by many other fans).
I also own a Mountain Top Ranch in the Mountains between Greenville SC, and the North East Georgia Mountains where the majority of the battles take place in this series. I found myself constantly looking at "Nuclear Yields" and "Prevailing Winds" to see if my Ranch survived the actions, and as of the last book in the series, we seem to have come out OK,even though being DEEP in Posleen Territory ;) You can literally pull up a Google Map of the Areas where the Battles take place and track them road by road, Mountain Pass by Mountain Pass, Stream and creek by stream and creek, which is a LOT of fun!
Being Retired Military, and a Semi-Retired Electrical Engineer, I can usually "Pick books apart on bad technical details", things like "Misunderstandings between the differences of "Geiger Counters" and "Survey Meters"", etc.. But in a later book in this series, just as I think "Oh John, how could you screw up THIS detail? No way they could be that badly irradiated by a splash of 'Contaminated water!'" John turns the whole incident into a Funny Set of circumstances caused by one of the characters that mistakenly misused a Radiation Meter, and didn't know that pure water can't be contaminated by Radioactivity (Obviously John knew!)...
The series is FULL of John's typical "Side Stories" that branch off into technical details that get a little boring sometimes, and lots of "Training Details, and "Hoo-Yah", but end up being part of something VERY funny in future books in the series and always tie in somewhere along the line... During the Final book (so far) in the series I laughed so hard in places I woke my wife up repeatedly... then later she woke ME up laughing repeatedly (We use Audible's "iPhone App" to listen to books, which is an AWESOME App, FULL of great features... We also use "Sleep Phones" I modified to "Blue-Tooth" instead of "Wired" to listen to books at night in bed!)
I admit I got a little tired of hearing things like, "Like trying to hold back an avalanche with a fire-hose", and "Wiped the off the face of the earth", and several other sayings that were used a bit too often in the first 4 books, but that's so minor I feel petty mentioning it.
Ringo quotes a LOT of Kipling in all of his books in this series, which is great, and in the last few books he switches to quoting lyrics from the CruxShadows, which I believe he got into during Dragon*Con (I know *I* did), but it works!
Throughout the series there are references to "Star-Wars", "Space Balls", "The Princess Bride", "Monty Python" and several other Cult Classic Movies and TV Shows and Comic Books... But I found them hilarious since I know those cult classics well.
What I really love about Ringo's writing is that he's so accurate in his technical details, when he teaches you something new, you can take it as a given, he's done his research!
I really hope there is a continuation of the series since it's left WIDE OPEN for a whole NEW long series of books! I've also written and asked Audible to see about bringing in the Series of books "The Council Wars", which I read in paperback years ago, and would LOVE to have in Audio-Book form. Audible is usually VERY good about quickly getting books you may ask for by popular writers, so I'm hoping they can pick that series up also!
Marc Vietor does a FANTASTIC Job of Narrating, as usual! Much like "John Lee", I think I could listen to Marc Read a Dictionary and find it interesting ;)
If you love Hard Military Sci-Fi, Ringo is one of the Greats! His books are right up there with Richard K Morgan, Charles Sheffield, Alastair Reynolds, and the other "Deep thinkers of Realistic Far-Future Sci-Fi", yet with a style uniquely his own!
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- Edgar
- 16-08-2012
Read it Now Heard It
My 3rd time, read twice now heard audio still love it. John Ringo is a master of Military SciFi
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2009
The first 2 chapters of the book are boring,but once you get out of those, it's awesome.
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- Paul
- 13-07-2009
Hard Core Blood and Guts Military Sci Fi
Great audiobook. Narrator's marine drill sargent voice is perfect for the military sci-fi genre and varies his voice well for different characters. Battles are outstanding. The writer lets the reader do the imagining on much of the aliend world detail, but the soldiering and action are reflective of the author's military experience. Sometimes the story gets a little "jargonny" for the non-vet, but bearing through it should not confuse the average reader in the end. Stories are not so out of touch with today that we can't relate to the equipment and the people. However, it is clearly written pre - 9/11/01, so some lee-way has to be given to the story line when it discussed life without war in 2001 and 2002.
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- Michael
- 13-12-2013
Get Greedy. Stay Hungry. Step Up To The Table!
I've enjoyed a wonderful variety of scifi and fantasy audiobooks here at Audible over the years, but I need to preface this review with a growing personal preference when it comes to my audiobook selections.
The more I listen over the years, my tastes have further refined. Now it seems, I prefer a GREAT audiobook SERIES, when and IF it ever occurs, one that carries the great writing, storyline and character development MUCH further than a single audio telling. And, of course, the writer needs to be good. VERY good. So, you know what that means. Slim pickings. But.
When it DOES occur, it's wonderful. It's extremely satisfying. It's like watching The Walking Dead, my favorite television series. Some of the episodes are better than others, sometimes I get frustrated at the pace, sometimes I shout at the screen, in shock, joy, anger or disbelief, giving profound character advice or brilliant script opinions. My sometimes verbally graphic and demonstrative rantings at the characters or plot lines are as R rated as the show.
So, I'm becoming the frustrating guy at the dinner party that wants more than one serving of the turkey - There's one at EVERY dinner party. I want seconds. I want thirds. Fourth's, please.
It's all about me. Me, me, me.
So, if you feel the same way, seeking a greater and longer personal satisfaction in your listening experience, and like military scifi, this first in the series by John Ringo, a military and political scifi writer, is a launchpad that will definitely propel you into a twelve book series here at Audible that will keep your attention. The narrator adds just the right accents, both human and alien to the work, expressed with feeling and continuity.
Here's a brief overview that will get you started. Again, no spoilers, no secrets, no giveaways:
In the early 21st century, Earth is approached by a pacific federation of alien races in need of earth's warlike tendencies, soldiers to save them from a race of vicious predators who also threaten Earth as well and the federation itself. A multinational and elite army of warriors gather to protect both Earth and the universe. They quickly discover that their allies have their own dark agendas and unique challenges. Even some of the leaders of earth are puppets for a much larger plan that has yet to be revealed.
Ringo's first novel is a fast-paced scifi military action story personified, boiling with acidic humor, character and future technology development, political intrigue, military life, and extremely vivid battle scenes. It so well lays the groundwork for what's ahead, that I went for seconds, thirds, fourths and more. I've acquired ALL of the audiobooks in the series, and am thoroughly enjoying them.
So, get greedy. Stay hungry. Step up to the table, and get a heaping helping of Ringo's "A Hymn Before Battle."
I'm thinking you'll want seconds, thirds and fourths at this awesome audiobook party.
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- Ryan
- 24-06-2015
Good scfi
Really good story, a little slow for my liking but in general a damn good bit of space Sci-fi. very much enjoying and a really good performance. Thank you
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- bettyandjohn
- 05-03-2015
Ten out of Five thats how good it was
Where does A Hymn Before Battle rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
It was interesting and I am glad it was included, as it made me laugh, and look forward to reading all of his books.
What did you like best about this story?
The story line, the characters and the way it was written
What about Marc Vietor's performance did you like?
He is such an imaginative writer, and has a great way of expressing himself.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I laughed and cried, the characters are real
Any additional comments?
Read Chris Fieldwarer IRA Intrusion, not to the high standard of Victors writing, but enjoyable, also the Contagion books
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- Mr Harvey M Bell
- 19-11-2013
Brilliant storie, grate naration, Highley recomend
Would you listen to A Hymn Before Battle again? Why?
YES a good store well told is always worth a second telling
Who was your favorite character and why?
Michal O'Neal plays the typical hero.
Which character – as performed by Marc Vietor – was your favourite?
To mant to name, both goodies and villians
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It's to long for me to take in one hit.
Any additional comments?
If you like the Stat Force series, I feal sure you will like this.
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- MastaRob
- 02-11-2018
Epic battles!
Classic ringo over the top military sci fi fun :-). Takes a while to get into the hard core fighting, but it's interesting anyway and worth the wait.
- Anonymous User
- 09-07-2018
First book in a series so lots of detail that will be used in following books. A bit slow to start with but gets better in the final quarter of the book. Narrator was excellent.