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Dr. Kim is a superb teacher, having been recognized with several honors and awards, including the Francis Gilman Blake Award for Outstanding Teaching of the Medical Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine. As with all our surgical faculty, Dr. Kim carries on the tradition of providing beyond exceptional surgical education, care, and scholarship to students, patients, and medical sciences.


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BROSSARD, Que. -- What, me worry?
Not a chance.
Trailing 2-1 in a Round 2 series against the Montreal Canadiens with Game 4 set for Thursday night at the Bell Centre, Bruins head coach Claude Julien isn't ready to throw in the towel after an ugly 4-2 loss Tuesday.
While only a handful of Boston players were on the ice for an optional skate at the Habs' practice facility in the Montreal suburb Wednesday, the Bruins' coach told a throng of reporters this is no time for "panic."
"We're a group that's confident but we also have guys who are frustrated at themselves," said Julien. "They have to be better and they are going to be better (Thursday).
"That's the confidence we have in our group and that's the way we've been in the past. You've got to rely on those guys to come up and play the kind of game they can.
"It's a 2-1 series. It's not the end of the world here. We've just got to battle back. There's no reason to panic. We haven't in the past and we're not about to right now."
Having surrendered home-ice advantage with a loss in Game 1 at TD Garden, the Bruins can get it back if they are able to beat the Habs at home and tie the series heading back to Boston.
The Bruins are well aware they didn't have a very good effort in Game 3. They let the Habs take advantage of glorious opportunities, made too many mistakes and waited too long to push back.
"They are doing a good job," said Boston winger Shawn Thornton. "They were blocking a lot of shots, creating a lot of scoring chances and I thought they came out with a lot of energy.
"I thought our pace in the first period was pretty good, we just gave up a couple of goals. The effort was there. We know what we did. We can shore it up and, hopefully, we can get back to playing the way we're used to playing."
If the Bruins don't get a victory it will be time for panic.
HOME OF HOCKEY: Dale Weise (Vancouver) and Mike Weaver (Florida) were both acquired at the deadline for depth.
They have different experiences in the hockey fishbowl of Montreal. Weise, a playoff hero with a goal in Game 3, recounted a story about getting recognized everywhere he goes in the city.
"In Vancouver, I walked around the streets every day and nobody had any idea who I was. I can't walk five feet without getting noticed in Montreal. I love it," said Weise.
Now, the experience hasn't been quite the same for Weaver. He hasn't been recognized much at all.
"My face hasn't been in the paper so keep it out," said Weaver, who has blocked 20 shots in the playoffs.
He "only" gets recognized "with (Tomas) Vanek."
Does anyone know he plays for Montreal?
"I think they think I'm a trainer," said Weaver. "That's fine. It's great sometimes. Sometimes it sucks. It's great to be noticed but sometimes it gets to be a little too much."
THIS N' THAT: There was a debate over Montreal's P.K. Subban knocking the net off with eight seconds left with the Boston trying to tie it up. The Bruins weren't about to fuel the fire. "This is all stuff that we can't control," said Julien. "Referees make those calls and you move forward. If we rely on referees to give us the breaks, then we don't have our focus in the right place. We need to make our own breaks. We have to look at ourselves and say, 'Did we play well enough to win that game?' We didn't. We can look at all this little stuff on the side. It's something we don't control and complain about." ... Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli said what Subban did happens. "Calls get missed," said Chiarelli. "They can say the same about stuff that our guys do." ... The NHL looked at a spear Milan Lucic made on Alexei Emelin in the third period Tuesday but didn't give any further discipline ... The Bruins won't say whether D Dennis Seidenberg will return in these playoffs which means he probably will.
THE LAST WORDS: With Ron Hextall taking over as GM in Philly, expect him to make changes. The Flyers may want to dangle forward Scott Hartnell's five-year, $4.75 million cap hit but that would be tough for anyone to swallow ... People in NHL circles are keeping a close eye on what happens to Toronto coach Randy Carlyle ... The two top candidates in Carolina: Rangers assistant Ulf Samuelsson and former Florida coach Kevin Dineen. Both have strong ties to Hurricanes' GM Ron Francis .... The talk is the Predators had to outbid the Panthers for coach Peter Laviolette ... The Vancouver Canucks and Barry Trotz look like a good fit, but president Trevor Linden still has to hire a GM to replace Mike Gillis. Boston's Jim Benning and assistant Laurence Gilman are on Linden's list.
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That time of year is coming around again : 2012 will be assessed and categorised in all areas that we can think of, and that includes chess !
As always, the Chess Cafe site has put up the first batch of nominated candidates ( with more to come no doubt ).
Looking through the suggestions offered so fa,r I hope that an opening book is not selected.
I have no doubt that Watson's latest French Defence book is detailed and precise, but I would rather these sorts of awards showcased the less theoretical ( and obsessive ?) parts of the chess arena to encourage us amateurs to think outside the opening phase of the game.
Unless I'm allowed to include the original and excellent edition of Martin Weteschnik's Chess Tactics from Scratch, I own only one of the current candidates, Tim Harding's detailed and intriguing look at Eminent Victorian Chess Players.
I enjoyed what I have read so far ( I started with Captain Evans, but then jumped to Lowenthal and Zukertort ) and would recommend it , but I somehow doubt it will win, being a touch too specialised.
Reviews of the Nimzowitsch biography ( Aron Nimzowitsch, Path to Mastery : 1886-1924 by Per Skjoldager and Jørn Erik Nielsen ) are resplendent in praise for it, so despite it being more history/biography than pure chess, I would give that a great chance of success, since it deals with a giant among chess players, and seems well on the way to being the standard work on Nimzowitsch's life.
The Hawkins book ( Amateur to IM ) has had many good reviews, and seems to offer a good mix for a winner, consisting of a good tale ( his progress to International Master and now Grand Master in all but name as he is rated 2507 at present ), plus how he did it by a focus on endgames : both feelgood and didactic !
In the same mould, I would expect that a similar book from Matthew Sadler, explaining his preparation for his "chess comeback" , will also appear as a candidate soon, as he is a very readable author, although I admit, I haven't seen the level of reviews that the Hawkins book has.
However, I suspect that the provocative and perhaps controversial Willy Hendriks offering ( Move First, Think Later ) may well grab the prize, even though it has already won the ECF award.
This is a book that has generated a lot of interest and discussion, as it seems to indicate that intuition probably plays a large part in chess than previously thought ( although no doubt structured by a huge chess knowledge in the case of Grandmasters ! ). A short opinion is here, a longer one here.
For us lazy amateurs, this also appears to offer the ideal antidote to the 10,000 and more hours of work that we should put in to make master-level, but I have no doubt that amongst his anarchistic and provocative words, he will also tell us that guessing ( which is what my intuitive move would be currently ) is no substitute for the insight that hard work brings !
I'll have to wait until 23rd January and see what the result is !
30 December, 2012
Chess Cafe Book of the Year ?
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Tech on NSA: Good start, details next
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants heard plenty of promise in President Barack Obama's speech on surveillance reform.
Now, they're just waiting for the real details.
The president offered a nod of support Friday to many items on Big Tech's wish list, including a pledge for more transparency about government surveillance requests, new public advocates at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and more privacy protections for foreigners.
That's good news for tech companies that fear an erosion of consumer trust and a backlash in Europe and other markets over their perceived cooperation with U.S. government snooping. But many of the president's proposals have yet to be fleshed out — and may require cooperation from Congress — signaling more debate to come for the industry.
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"The commitments outlined by President Obama represent positive progress on key issues including transparency from the government and in what companies will be allowed to disclose, extending privacy protections to non-US citizens, and FISA court reform," AOL, Apple, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo said in a joint statement after the president's speech.
But, they added, "Crucial details remain to be addressed on these issues, and additional steps are needed on other important issues, so we'll continue to work with the administration and Congress to keep the momentum going and advocate for reforms consistent with the principles we outlined in December."
The companies' response to Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA surveillance has evolved significantly over the past several months, from legalistic statements to demands for more transparency about government surveillance requests to outright lobbying for NSA reform in Washington. Top executives like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made their point directly to the president at the White House last month. And they took out full-page ads in major newspapers highlighting their belief in the need for surveillance reform.
The changing strategy reflects the business pressures created by the surveillance revelations, with regulators worldwide threatening new penalties and market barriers for U.S. tech companies, particularly in Europe, where efforts are underway to toughen consumer privacy rules.
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Obama on Friday moved in the direction of tech company positions on multiple fronts. He called for a panel of privacy and technology advocates on the FISC and announced a new position at the State Department "to coordinate our diplomacy on issues related to technology and signals intelligence." The White House also recommitted the administration to defending the "open Internet" internationally.
"What we've been doing over the last few months resonated with the president, and that we've got a lot of work left to do as we turn a lot of these reforms into legislation," said Dean Garfield, CEO of the the Information Technology Industry Council.
Many of the details of the president's plan, however, remain vague.
Obama, for example, emphasized the need for surveillance transparency, a major issue for the industry — but the White House didn't reveal much about how that would work.
( Also on POLITICO: Lawmakers praise, pan President Obama's NSA plan)
In a statement after the speech, the White House said only that it's aiming to "enable communications providers to make public more information than ever before about the orders they have received to provide data to the government." It said it's still "in discussions with the providers about ways in which additional information could be made public."
The administration has been locked in a legal battle with tech companies at the surveillance court over how much the industry can disclose about government requests.
The White House's plan of action also lacked details on how surveillance court opinions might be made public and specifics on the protections for non-U.S. citizens, according to sources close to the tech companies that issued the joint statement Friday.
Also unresolved: how the intelligence community will meet the president's call to minimize incidental collection of Americans' emails and other communications as the NSA pursues foreign targets. And the administration said nothing about the issue of encryption, which has sparked criticism in the tech industry after reports that NSA has sought to crack a range of devices and services.
The president at one point appeared to open the door to scrutiny of commercial as well as government data collection — something that could subject tech giants to unwanted questions.
"Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze our data and use it for commercial purposes; that's how those targeted ads pop up on your computer or smartphone," Obama said in his speech.
The president announced a new presidential task force to study "big data," led by top adviser John Podesta and other officials. The review will look at how the public and private sectors are confronting the "challenges" to privacy in an age where computers can process and analyze once unfathomable troves of information about people.


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Leonard J Savage: Foundations of Statistics
The International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Edinburgh from 14 August to 21 August 1958. The President was W V D Hodge who was also Chairman of the Executive Committee. The Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee was A C Aitken and the Scientific Programme Committee was M H A Newman (Chairman), A C Aitken, M S Bartlett, M L Cartwright, J L B Cooper, H Davenport, P Hall, N Kemmer, M J Lighthill, E A Maxwell, D G Northcott, W W Rogosinski, A G Walker, J H C Whitehead, M V Wilkes and J A Green.
L J Savage gave a 30 minute invited address to Section VI of the Congress. We give the text of his lecture below:-
L J Savage gave a 30 minute invited address to Section VI of the Congress. We give the text of his lecture below:-
Recent Tendencies in the Foundations of Statistics
By Leonard J Savage
1. Introduction
This is an expository talk directed mainly at any non-statisticians who may have wandered in. It is important to address the non-specialists at a congress like this, to help maintain the bonds between the diversifying branches of mathematics. In this particular talk, a restraint on technicalities will have the added advantage of helping experts and the speaker keep their feet on the ground.
The foundations of statistics are controversial, changing, and subtle. Therefore, try though I shall to be fair and clear, you must keep yourselves especially aware that you are hearing mainly the present views of a single person, imperfectly expressed.
The foundations of statistics are a part of the foundations of science in its widest sense. Their study is not mathematics in principle, and by no means all the important contributions to them have been made by mathematicians. But the use of some mathematical techniques is inevitable in the study of a quantitative subject. Still more, mathematical training and outlook have led, and will surely continue to lead, to important advances in the foundations of statistics. The relation is reciprocal in that mathematics is sometimes stimulated by the foundations, as it is by the other theoretical aspects of statistics.
The reference to recent tendencies in my title has a continuum of possible meanings, and in fact various parts of the talk will refer to tendencies of the present century, of the period since World War II, and of the last few years or even months.
2. Meanings of 'statistics'
I begin by outlining some meanings that have been given to the word 'statistics', not to enter into an argument that would be out of place here (and perhaps anywhere) as to what the word ought to mean, but to indicate the subject of this talk and to set the stage for it.
Etymologically, 'statistics' refers to numerical data about the state. Even today there are many professional statisticians to whom 'statistics' means effectively demography in a more or less extensive sense - the compilation and interpretation of census data, economic statistics, or vital statistics (records of births, deaths, and illness).
For many of us, however, the word has drifted far from its original meaning and come to refer to quantitative thinking about uncertainty as it affects scientific and other investigations. It is this meaning, suggested by 'inductive' or 'statistical inference', that 'statistics' has for us here. This subject goes back historically to at least the early eighteenth century, when Jacob Bernoulli, and a little later Thomas Bayes, made great contributions to it. It was pushed forward in the nineteenth century by Laplace, Gauss, and others, and it has been subject to a fervour of activity since the early twenties of this century, when it received great impetus from the work of R A Fisher.
In physics, 'statistics' usually pertains to probability without special reference to the problem of inference but with emphasis on large aggregates.
3. Inductive inference and inductive behaviour
One of the most important trends of the past few decades is a shift in formulation of the central problem of statistics from the problem of what to say or believe in the face of uncertainty to the problem of what to do. It would be hard and unrewarding to seek out the very beginning of this economic movement, as I shall call it because of its emphasis on the costs of wrong decision. It goes back at least as far as Gauss [7], but Neyman brought it forward with particular explicitness in 1938 [8], coining the expression 'inductive behaviour' in contrast to 'inductive inference'. Wald took up the theme with energy and enthusiasm, exploring it in great detail and stimulating many others to do so during his own life and after his untimely death.
That many important and interesting problems concerned with uncertainty are economic in nature is clear and undisputed. Going much further, some of us believe that economic models are of great value throughout the whole of statistics. This is controversial, and it is maintained, especially by Barnard [1],[3] and Fisher [5],[6] that the methods and ideas appropriate to frankly economic problems are not appropriate to the problems of science, the problems of finding out the truth for the truth's sake. Fisher says in a particularly pungent way that science ought not to be confused with the sordid business of either the market place or the five-year planners' bureau [5].
Admittedly a close relation between frankly economic problems and more academic ones is not obvious, or even thoroughly demonstrable, but some case can be made for it. To illustrate, in practical problems of point estimation, there are certain systematic reasons why the penalty for mis-estimation is often nearly proportional to the square of the error. These same reasons are, to say the least, suggestive even for problems of pure science-a precedent for this idea can be seen in Gauss [7]. More generally, it should be kept in mind that science does have goals and that mistakes made in approaching them do entail costs, however subtle and abstract.
There seems to me nothing at the present time to substitute for the hope that an economic theory of decision in the face of uncertainty will be a valuable guide for the whole problem of inference. If there is an important kind of inference problem that cannot properly be discussed in economic terms, no one yet seems able to state these problems with enough precision so that they can be analyzed and solved. In brief, the economic outlook seems to me of great promise for the whole of statistics, though it is not necessarily the last word. We should continue to explore and use it with hope and discretion and with an eye open for new ideas.
One thing that has been said about the putative distinction between scientific and economic problems is that the scientific inference to be drawn from given data is unique and universal, whereas the economic conclusions change with circumstances, such as values and opportunities [3]. I myself believe that the idea of a universal summary of data - that is, the likelihood-ratio function or some effective substitute-is valid and important, but the idea of such a summary does not for me rest on any distinction between science and business.
4. Objectivism and subjectivism
It was for a long time generally believed that all uncertainties could be measured by probabilities, and a few of us today believe that this view, which has recently been very unpopular, must soon again come into its own. It was part of the creed of the great renaissance of statistics in the second quarter of the century that only special uncertainties associated with gambling apparatus and the like were measurable by probabilities and that other uncertainties would have to be analyzed and dealt with in some other ways. This renunciation swept away the classical framework for inference, built on Bayes's theorem, and thereby created many new problems. There was especially the problem of finding new meanings to important-sounding questions that had been rendered nonsensical by the renunciation. The situation was a fertile and stimulating one. Many new ideas directed at filling the gaps were introduced. Some of these ideas are apparently of lasting value, but some of them (such as confidence limits in their current formulation or tests of narrow hypotheses) may not be. In any event, the over-all program has not yet been even nearly successful, nor do I think it ever can be.
Statisticians have always recognized that subjective judgments of fact (as well as of value) necessarily play a role in statistical practice. First, much personal, that is subjective, judgment is obviously required to decide what kind of an experiment is the promising one to perform, and on what scale. There are, therefore, subjective aspects to the essential statistical activity of designing experiments and other investigations. Again, it has long been recognized that the user of statistics, in analyzing data, must make a subjective choice among available operating characteristic curves and the like. To be sure, the minimax theory can be seen as an attempt almost to eliminate all judgments but those of value from both design and analysis, but few if any would contend that there has been more than the formal appearance of success here.
A certain subjective theory of probability formulated by Ramsey [9] and later and more extensively by de Finetti [4] promises great advantages for statistics. Contrary to what the word 'subjective' seems to connote to many, the theory is not mysterious or particularly unoperational. It gives, a few of us believe, a consistent, workable, and unifying analysis for all problems about the interpretation of the theory of probability, a much contested subject. It unifies the treatment of uncertainties, measuring them all by probabilities and emphasizing that they depend not only on patterns of information but on the opinions of individual people. Experience seems to me to show that this theory provides a better framework for understanding both the objective and the subjective aspects of statistics than we have heretofore had.
5. Does It matter?
As is often said, and with much truth, the explicit study of the foundations of a subject is usually of relatively little practical importance, for common sense and experience over the course of time develop a science more securely than it could possibly be built up by direct application of abstract principles. None the less, I believe that present-day discussions about inference and behaviour, about subjectivism and objectivism are stimulating practical advances in statistics. The evidences of this are widely scattered, but I shall mention only two examples.
First, it is becoming increasingly accepted that, once an experiment has been done, any analysis or other reaction to the experiment ought to depend on the likelihood-ratio function and on it alone, without any further regard to how the experiment was actually planned or performed. I believe that this doctrine, which contradicts much that was recently most firmly established in statistical theory and practice, is basically correct and that it will soon greatly simplify and strengthen statistics. Let me not falsify history by intimating that appreciation of the likelihood-ratio function as much more than is ordinarily understood by a 'sufficient statistic' originated in the economic outlook and subjectivism. Actually, it was, so far as I know, begun by Barnard [2] and Fisher [6] , and quite apart from these ideas. None the less, the economic outlook and the subjectivistic theory of probability lend strong support to the likelihood-ratio doctrine and promise to hasten its acceptance and exploitation.
Secondly, David Wallace has recently obtained a valuable new insight into the much vexed Behrens-Fisher problem by reconsidering it from the point of view of subjective probability.
1. G A Barnard, Sequential tests in industrial statistics, J. R. Statist. Soc. (Suppl.) 8 (1946), 1-26.
2. G A Barnard, A review of 'Sequential Analysis' by Abraham Wald, J. Amer. Statist. Ass. 42 (1947), 658-664.
3. G A Barnard, Simplified decision functions, Biometrika 41 (1954), 241-251.
4. Bruno de Finetti, La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives, Ann. lnst. Poinearé 7 (1937), 1-68.
5. Sir Ronald A Fisher, Statistical methods and scientific induction, J. R. Statist. Soc. (B) 17 (1955), 69-78.
6. Sir Ronald A Fisher, Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1956).
7. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Abhandlungen zur Methode der kleinsten Quadrate von Carl Friedrich Gauss (Berlin, 1887). (Translation from Latin by A Borsch and P Simon.)
8. Jerzy Neyman, L'estimation statistique, traitée comme un probléme classique de probabilité, in Actualités scientifiques et industrielles no. 739 (Hermann et Cie., Paris, 1938), 25-57.
9. Frank P Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays (Kegan Paul, London, 1931).
10. Leonard J Savage, The Foundations of Statistics (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1954).
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- G A Barnard, Sequential tests in industrial statistics, J. R. Statist. Soc. (Suppl.) 8 (1946), 1-26.
- G A Barnard, A review of 'Sequential Analysis' by Abraham Wald, J. Amer. Statist. Ass. 42 (1947), 658-664.
- G A Barnard, Simplified decision functions, Biometrika 41 (1954), 241-251.
- Bruno de Finetti, La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives, Ann. lnst. Poinearé 7 (1937), 1-68.
- Sir Ronald A Fisher, Statistical methods and scientific induction, J. R. Statist. Soc. (B) 17 (1955), 69-78.
- Sir Ronald A Fisher, Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1956).
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, Abhandlungen zur Methode der kleinsten Quadrate von Carl Friedrich Gauss (Berlin, 1887). (Translation from Latin by A Borsch and P Simon.)
- Jerzy Neyman, L'estimation statistique, traitée comme un probléme classique de probabilité, in Actualités scientifiques et industrielles no. 739 (Hermann et Cie., Paris, 1938), 25-57.
- Frank P Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays (Kegan Paul, London, 1931).
- Leonard J Savage, The Foundations of Statistics (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1954).
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Price, Maddon impressed with Moore's All-Star outing
ST. PETERSBURG -- Starter Matt Moore was one of four players absent from the Rays' optional workout at Tropicana Field on Thursday.
He did get some work, although not much, in New York for his first All-Star Game. Moore threw the fifth inning for the American League, retiring Carlos Gonzalez, Yadier Molina and Troy Tulowitzki on nine pitches.
"That's another check mark on the list of tremendous accomplishments, and I think when he comes back here to play, he will have more calmness and confidence about him," manager Joe Maddon said. "It benefits him and us."
Moore's locker-neighbor, David Price, cheered him on from home.
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China hits back at claims it is blocking climate talks
China hit back Thursday at claims it was holding up global climate talks in Germany, saying the United States, Europe and other rich states were the ones applying the brakes.
Developed nations are trying to wriggle out of legal targets to curb global warming, Chinese chief negotiator Su Wei told AFP.
"They try to evade the legally binding commitments," he said on the sidelines of negotiations in the former German capital Bonn.
On Wednesday, the European Union warned that the effort to forge a new global pact on climate change by 2015 was in danger of floundering, and some negotiators pointed the finger at China.
"It is very dirty communication politics," Su said sharply, insisting his country has "shown a lot of flexibility."
European participants said China was blocking attempts to launch a negotiating track, set up only six months ago at talks under the UN banner in Durban, South Africa.
Known by the initials ADP -- for ad-hoc talks on the "Durban Platform" -- the track is supposed to draft a new climate pact by 2015 binding all nations, rich and poor, to take effect by 2020.
But the arena has been badly troubled since the Bonn talks began on May 14, and only a few hours remain on Friday for resolving big organisational problems and appointing officials.
Su named the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as among countries abusing the Durban Platform "to jump from the legally binding system" established under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"They try to evade the legally binding commitments under the KP and the LCA," he said, referring to the Kyoto Protocol and so-called Long-term Cooperative Action.
Under the Kyoto Protocol, whose first leg ends this year, 37 industrial countries are held to specific goals for slashing emissions of Earth-warming greenhouse gases. Poorer countries have no binding targets.
The LCA is a process under which the 195 parties of the UNFCCC target a two-degree-Celsius (3.6-degree-Fahrenheit) global warming limit.
"They are using the Durban Platform as a scapegoat for them to have no legally binding commitments because the Durban discussions... are not legally binding," said Su of the rich countries.
On Wednesday, Danish chief negotiator Christian Pilgaard Zinglersen warned about the state of the talks.
"If this slow pace of negotiations continues... it poses the risk of unraveling the Durban package," he said, speaking for the EU.
French climate ambassador Serge Lepeltier said that China specifically "gives the impression of having hardened its positions since Durban."
China is by far the world's number one carbon emitter and its 1.3 billion people are swiftly getting wealthier, which causes the country to burn ever more coal, gas and oil.
But it is also arguing fiercely for the 20-year-old UNFCCC principle that developing countries should not be asked to shoulder the same burden as rich economies for tackling the greenhouse-gas problem.
Environmental groups added their voice to the row.
"We are very concerned that the blame game has started to blame the developing countries like China for blocking. What we see is that the countries who are actually blocking are the northern parties, the developed countries," said Meena Raman of the Third World Network.
"When developing countries try and focus on the heart of the matter, on how we are to deal with emission cuts in a principled way, they get accused of 'procedural blocking'," added Mithika Mwenda of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance.
"To us Africans, facing the deadly droughts and changing rainfall patterns, what is blocking this process is the US refusing to negotiate its emission target at all. Blocking is the European Union offering a business-as-usual 20-percent target while allowing weak accounting rules in the Kyoto Protocol."
Canada meanwhile insisted it remained "committed" to fighting global warming despite last year becoming the first country to quit Kyoto.
"We came here to confirm our willingness to start negotiations on a new accord as soon as possible," chief negotiator Guy Saint-Jacques told AFP.
Earlier this month, Canada said it would not reach its aim of reducing greenhouse gases by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle Athletic Department has announced the hiring of Jim Casciano and Marc Heidorf as the program's new men's and women's head basketball coaches, respectively. Casciano also serves as the Assistant Athletic Director, while Heidorf takes on the role of Sports Information Director.
In his nearly 30 year collegiate coaching career, Casciano has headed up men's basketball programs at the NJCAA, NAIA, NCAA Division I, II, and III levels. Casciano joins the Owls' athletic program from Union County College (NJ) where he spent the past two seasons rebuilding the UCC program. The result was his team reaching the semifinals of the Division III Region XIX post-season tournament.
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While at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Heidorf served as an advanced scout for conference opponents. His analysis helped lead the Eagles to only their 2nd win over conference foe UW-Oshkosh in 37 attempts and later their first season sweep of the Titans in over 20 years. He was also part of a recruiting effort that brought in a class that, as upperclassmen, helped lead the Eagles to their first NCAA Division III tournament appearance in 23 years.
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Heidorf earned his bachelor's degree with a major in Radio-TV-Film and minor in Coaching from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. In 2007, he received his master's degree in Sport Administration from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.


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So, the next day (without him knowing of course), I switched stations and caught the last minute of Try. I had never heard anything like it. It blew my mind. I bought the tape that afternoon after school. To this day, they remain one of my all-time favourite bands.
I had never heard anything like it. It was like opium to my ears. I don't think the song was released as a single, which is why I went to Kresge's in Thorncliffe Park, where I grew up, to buy with my own money the Magical Mystery Tour album. I Am the Walrus is just one of several outstanding sonic creations on it, the others being Strawberry Fields, Fool on the Hill, Penny Lane and George Harrison's psychedelic-evocative, Blue Jay Way.
I am a huge Beatles fan still today. I met Ringo last year, and, in September, I met Paul McCartney at the world premiere of his Ocean's Kingdom ballet in New York; he kissed me twice, and held my hand while we chatted. I was dumbstruck. But I did manage to find my voice to thank him for a lifetime of incredible music.


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I have never "voiced" my beliefs before but I had this need to write and this is what came out...or at least a brief rough draft of what goes through my mind when I hear friends and families conversations.
I respect all opinions and this is mine. I believe in having my own beliefs. I believe in not denouncing others faith. I believe in the end nothing matters, nothing we have done, said, believed in or not believed in, people we have loved, hated, missed, or loathed, because in death it is all the same. Just as we were all born the same way (we all were conceived as a result of a man and a woman, or technology I guess...) we will all die into nothingness. Believing in (a) God(s), or believing that aliens may have created us, using us as experiments, or any other belief people may have, to me they are all just ways for man to satisfy the need to know, to know the meaning of life, to have a meaning of life. When actually there is no meaning to life other than our primitive instincts to breed and keep our species alive, we have no more meaning to life than a cat or an elephant or a maggot in the trash. I believe the theories of how we came to be, either scientifically or biblically, are inconsequential; hmmm let me rephrase… everything we think we know, everything we believe is irrelevant and meaningless.
I am not sure if I consider myself Atheist, I have seen so many destroy the concept for me. I feel as though that goes with any belief and I choose not to label myself whether I am "text book" believer or a loose follower.
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You can't believe you are an atheist. Either you believe in a God or you don't.
I agree though. In the end we are no better than a maggot in the trash.
So poetically nihilistic it is. :)
Nihilistic is the word that came to my mind as well.
I believe our lives have a meaning, however temporary that meaning is. I may never change the world in a major way, but I have helped people make their own lives better. I do think mankind has made a royal mess of things, and we are definitely not any better than a cat or elephant.... I do think we are better than maggots in trash though, but primarily because I hate every maggot I have ever seen and don't quite hate every person I have ever met ;)
Atheism is just another word, to me, to describe my lack of belief in any gods. You could use humanist, rationalist, skeptic, nihilist, or pretty much any other word if you ever feel the need for a label. Or, if you are a loose follower (of what god/s?), perhaps deism is closer to what you believe to be true, or even agnostic. But really, do you need a label? I don't think so :)
It is true that in the end nothing matters.
But now, at the present moment, what we do matters. For the future especially.
We are here. What next?
a) foresee your imminent death and loose all your motives
b) acknowledge death and find a way to live life to it's full until death comes ( optionally, making a change while you're at it for the next generation of humans to enjoy )
I may be misunderstanding you, but I think what we do in the here and now does matter. It may seem inconsequential in the context of seemingly infinite time and space, but we don't exist in the infinite. We exist in the here and now and what we do here and now matters to us and it matters to others who exist in the here and now.
For example, if you were being tortured you would probably agree that your pain and suffering matters to the extent that you want it stop. I doubt you could take much comfort in knowing that a million years from now your suffering won't matter because you exist in the here and now, not in the distant future. Similarly, if you were to torture someone else you can be assured that they believe their suffering matters even though it may seem inconsequential a million years from now.
So, while our lives may be finite they have meaning and our lives (and all that comes with being alive) matters to us right now. And I think that is important to remember - especially when you ponder the infinite and other esoteric concepts that really are beyond our comprehension.
You make a good point, and maybe the most valuable thing about our momentary existence is the fact that we can contemplate it at all. In fact, we can create meaning in our life, any meaning at all, and pursue that meaning.
You could decide that your meaning in life is to create the most perfect experience possible. A lifetime of suffering might go into a perfect experience that lasts a moment - like viewing the world from the top of mount everest. For me, I often stop to evaluate my current mood, surroundings, and comfort just to consider if I would be happy if time were to completely and permanently stop in that very moment. I have had several where my answer was a definite yes.
So our lives have absolutely no meaning in the greater scheme of things, but they have as much meaning as we want them to have within the short time we have to contemplate such matters.
How you live your life does matter because it's accumulative. In the end, it won't matter, but hopefully you're a long way from the end.
So, if you spend your life learning, you will receive the benefits of knowing more and it could make you happier. It does me.
If you take care of your health, it might serve you for a long time.
And if you care about others, they might care about you.
The path from maggot to Think Atheist goes through some amazing non-maggoty machinery does it not? If you really meant the words as I read the words you roundly contradict yourself.
If you think slaves enjoy going to work in the morning just like their masters you should go sign up as a galley slave at the earliest possible chance. Or just be my slave. I'm thirsty, where's my coffee?
But seriously, try reading Stuart Kaufman's "Alive in the Universe" and lay off the Quaaludes.
My life has no meaning unless I find meaning for it. To start with I was christian. My life was to serve my parents relegion beacuse it had to be true. Mommy said so. (Mommy dosen't like talking about welegion any moar wiv me...) Then, I called shenanigans and it became to find meaning. An alternate purpose. My life now is for me to live and be happy, to support my friends and loved ones. It might not be the most socially or 'morally' accepted way to do things, but it gives me strong relationships, the ability to be everyone's friend and, when someone does die, I move on.
Case in point, last september, my friend got hit by a car and died. 2 weeks later and I was in prime position to support my friends having gotten over it myself. In comparison, some of said friends go quiet when his name comes up. (Peter, if you read this, sorry for reminding you...)
Additionally I have certain qualities that make me valuable to people. I will always be as honest as possible if you need me to. Sure, I can still joke, but if you need it, I will be honest. This may hurt people but, for example, just saying your wife or girlfriend looks good in what she's wearing just because it's what she want's to hear... It's silly. It's pointless.
Case in point, Peter (see above) may now be depressed, but I've conveyed my message and that, to me, is what counts because to not convey my message would mean I've just wasted my time.
Basically, you find a reason to live. You find your own meaning. If that meaning dies with your name, so be it. If that meaning pushes humanity to a golden age of prosperity, you will have changed the universe. What you do with your life comes form your attitude to it and that comes from the meaning you associate with it.
No meaning? No point.
That... was longer than I planned it to be.


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Yes, I had a new iPhone waiting for me when I got home from Florida (among other things). I upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS … which takes video! Here's what I'm finding out so far about the video quality:
One of my first videos, uploaded to blip.tv:
The video quality is about the same as you'd find on a Flip camera, so not too shabby! It films in QuickTime .mov format, using AAC for audio and H.264 for the video codec. It makes a standard-sized video of 640X480 when held in landscape mode.
Here's a video I uploaded directly to YouTube (the new iPhone allows you to do that):
So – I like having a video camera ALWAYS with me, in my pocket. What I'm not quite used to yet is how the iPhone decides when it's going to be in landscape or vertical modes. For example, this video …
… was filmed and sent to YouTube in landscape mode … but it came out vertical (fyi – this shows off the iPhone's macro video mode, too). This isn't the first time that's happened to me. Out of the four videos I've posted to YouTube so far, two are in landscape mode and two are vertical.
And that's not the only place I've discovered quirks. Look what happened in iPhoto!
Even weirder in iMovie – check out the thumbnails iMovie generated – the thumbnails are sideways are squished for some strange reason, but the actual video is in landscape mode!
It's quite possible I just haven't figured out something yet, but this is a bit irksome. Otherwise, uploading to a variety of places seems to work fine. So far, I have been able to upload my videos to:
- my computer, to iPhoto and iMovie for editing (haven't tried importing to Final Cut Express, but I'm sure that will work fine, too)
- YouTube
- Flickr, through Flickr's uploading tool and via email
- blip.tv via blip's uploading tool (the first video in this post). I have also tried blip's mobile email uploader, but haven't seen any video show up in my blip account yet. We'll see what happens with that!
And one more thing – editing. Yes, you can do some extremely basic editing of your iPhone video – right on the iPhone. Here's how it looks:
See the timeline at the top of the video? You can click the beginning and ending points and trim the video's beginning and ending. And that's all. But that's ok – I'll probably end up dumping video to my Mac anyway for editing later. For some people, this will be pretty useful stuff.
So – my iPhone video report so far… will david figure out how to succeed in landscape mode? Will Apple usher in a new era of vertical video? Don't hold your breath to find out!


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Apgar-Score in Asphyxiated Infants Under Resuscitation
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Verified September 2010 by Technische Universität Dresden.
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First Posted : September 2, 2010
Last Update Posted : February 18, 2011
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In the first place the Apgar-score helps to evaluate the postnatal adaptation of the newborn and is used as an index for resuscitative interventions. However, it has been shown in the past that the score has its limits and may be influenced by several factors such as the variability of the examiner, drugs, parental age, neurological impairment of the child as well as premature delivery. Previous studies have proven, however, that the evaluation of the infant's condition with the conventional Apgar-score is affected due to non-uniform definitions.
For this, an explanation might be that on the one hand the inaccuracy of the score is based on missing guidelines for the assessment of the score in premature infants. Both, muscle tone and reflexes of extremely premature infants are physiologically more immature than they are in term newborns. In conclusion, healthy premature infants often achieve a lower Apgar-score than their term counterparts. However, this is rather an expression of their immaturity than a sign for postnatal depression.
Another reason for the inaccuracy of the score might have its origin in the limited comparability and validity of the Apgar-score when applied in resuscitated newborns. Until now there is no consensus how to assess the condition of the newborn under resuscitation, since the individual characteristics composing the score are affected by the resuscitation itself. For example, heart frequency and skin colour are improved by sufficient ventilation. So far there are no regulations on how this fact should be considered while assessing the score. A description of the infant's condition without interventions respectively with interruption of the interventions applied would be in contrast to Apgar's intention to have a score "which could be determined easily without interfering with the care of the infant". The description of the condition independently of the interventions applied offers a practicable alternative. By using this method the resuscitation will not be interrupted and the score will not express the efforts of the infant but describe its condition, independently of the requirements needed to achieve this condition.
To validate the accuracy of the specified version of the Apgar-score to predict neonatal mortality and long term outcome in preterm infants, the multicenter TEST-Apgar study has been performed recently.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is also aware of the problem concerning the description of resuscitated newborns. As a solution, it was suggested to use an expanded Apgar-score reporting form that accounts for concurrent resuscitative interventions (AAP-Score). This way the infant's condition can be estimated and documented more easily. Although the AAP-Score has been suggested 4 years ago, data on the predictive reliability are not available yet. This aspect regarding the neonatal mortality of premature infants has also been analyzed in the TEST-Apgar study. The results show that the specified Apgar-Score should be used in combination with the AAP-Score in the future to appraise the condition of premature infants. Its predictive value regarding the neonatal mortality of premature infants is very good. Detailed results will be published soon.
The present study analyzes the validity of the specified Apgar- and the AAP- Scores in asphyxiated infants >37 weeks of gestation undergoing resuscitation. Since the Apgar-score presents an index for the postnatal adaption to the extra-uterine life, reflects the efficiency of resuscitative interventions and also serves as an inclusion criteria for specific types of therapy (e.g. hypothermia therapy), it is necessary, to standardise the use of the Apgar-score and improve its prognostic value.
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|December 2011
|asphyxiated newborns > 37 weeks of gestation
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- Parental consent
- Born within the study center (inborn)
- gestational age >37 completed weeks
- Receiving one or more resuscitive intervention (CPAP, Oxygen supplementation, Intubation and ventilation, bag and mask ventilation, surfactant, catecholamines, chest compression) and/or Birth Asphyxia with a umbilical artery pH <7,0 or BE > -16 with subsequent admission to NICU.
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missing parental consent
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Apgar in asphyxiated infants
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Constitutional Carry may soon be coming to North Carolina. Long ridiculed by outsiders as the "Massachusetts of Dixie" because of our restrictive (by Southern standards) gun control laws, North Carolina is poised to take its place among the leaders in gun rights reform. Sources, which I can't divulge, have made it clear that Constitutional Carry is on the radar. We can expect to see some concrete movement in the New Year.
While the Federal elections were disappointing for gun owners, North Carolina, coming off a historic Republican led redistricting plan, has turned the entire State government over to the Republican party for the first time ever. The 2010 elections gave control of both houses of the NC General Assembly to the Republicans who used the opportunity to reverse 100 years of Democrat drawn legislative districts. Couple that with a deeply unpopular Democrat Governor, so unpopular she chose not to run, and the 2012 elections have given us a new Republican Governor, and veto proof majorities in both houses of the NCGA.
Since gun rights reforms were traditionally blocked here in North Carolina by city dwelling Democrat legislators who occupied NCGA leadership positions, this means that the only truly anti-gun politicians left in North Carolina are no longer in a position to stop us. And with a Republican Governor, it's now open season on some of our dumber gun laws.
Constitutional Carry (or Vermont Carry, if you prefer) would mean that it would no longer be a requirement for lawful residents to take training classes, pay outrageous sums of money, and beg permission from the Sheriff before exercising their right to carry a concealed weapon. Note that I said "weapon," not "handgun." Constitutional Carry would eliminate the entire "concealed weapon" law, 14-269. It would still be illegal for convicted felons to carry a firearm, but regular lawful residents would no longer have to apply for a permit to carry.
Still to be revealed is whether North Carolina will retain some sort of "tiered" concealed carry system. Will there be locations where a person who has a Concealed Handgun Permit will be able to carry, but a lawful non-permit holder will not? For example, will CHP holders be allowed to carry on school property while non-permit holders will not? Or will CHP holders have the exact same time, place, and manner restrictions that non-permit holders have? In this case, we would be adopting a system like in Alaska, where people only get CHPs so that when they travel to other states they can take advantage of reciprocity rules and carry there as well.
We've got a long way to go here in North Carolina, but getting Constitutional Carry would certainly ease the burden on lawful residents. I think it's wrong to demand that people pay well over $150 for permits and training before they are granted permission to exercise their rights.


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Grand Am Rolex - Kimball Hopes For Clean, Smart 24 Debut
Daytona, Jan 23, 2013: Neither the Daytona Prototype's horsepower, its braking nor suspension caught Charlie Kimball off-guard during his initial round of testing the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates car for the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Actually, not feeling the wind at his visor was the thing that struck the IZOD IndyCar Series driver."It was the first time I've ever driven anything with a roof competitively," said Kimball, who will compete in his first Rolex Sports Car Series race this weekend. "Just very different sensations, visuals, audio, and it took me a couple of laps to get used to it. The last time I was on a track with three or four different classes of cars at the same time was British Formula Ford on a track day at Donington Park (England) where you had everything from the Jaguar Le Mans car to Formula Ford to a 1970s' Mustang sports car."
Kimball is among more than 10 INDYCAR drivers, including reigning IZOD IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay and Indianapolis 500 champion Dario Franchitti, who will compete in three categories in the 51st edition of the endurance race on the 3.56-mile, 12-turn Daytona International Speedway circuit.
Kimball, who is entering his third season with Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing, will co-drive the No. 01 car with Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Juan Pablo Montoya. Pruett and Rojas have teamed up to win the Grand-Am series title six times, including the past three championships. A Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates car has won the 24-race four times, the latest in 2011.
Getting a handle on the car didn't prove elusive. It's just different from his regular ride.
"Pruett was on the stand during my first stint and watched the telemetry and said, 'You might want to consider doing this,' '' Kimball said. " 'In an IndyCar you have a third of the weight and the same horsepower. This takes a little longer to develop so give it a second to get going. Feel like you're driving slower and you'll actually go faster.' "
The rookie of the group is welcoming to any and all pointers. He's texted questions to Pruett and introduced topics to Rojas during their recent physical workouts in Indianapolis.
"Much of the advice hasn't been about driving the car or racing the car or looking out for traffic," Kimball said. "It's been about the perspective of your job in the car is to get in, not hit anything, drive it at 95 percent while taking care of the car and the gearbox, the brakes, the engine and tires and hand the car over to the next guy in a position to go out and win the race. Run clean, run smart.
"For an IndyCar, that's totally different. The green flag flies and you're nose to the grindstone for the whole time."
Running after dusk on a road course is another other element new to Kimball.
"At night, it's a different perspective," he said. "You come off the banking into the infield and there's the first hairpin. You come back around and you're facing cars coming off the banking and see these yellow, bright headlights. You get used to ignoring that input."


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Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking in Schools
Teachers, you may want to be sitting down for this one.
The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself:
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
As a top commenter on a Reddit thread wrote about the language, "I was absolutely sure this had to be an elaborate fake ... ." It's not.
We at Teacher think this may be a kind of first. While the push for accountability via standardized testingwhich the current Democratic administration has stood behindhas frequently been characterized as potentially undermining instruction in critical thinking, blatant opposition to teaching students to think deeply has not often (ever?) been a part of the policy conversation.
In that same section of the document, labeled "Educating Our Children," the Texas Republicans go on to state that they "oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten." And, in a statement that human rights groups (and many others) will find difficult to stomach, the platform says, "We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. Corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas."
While corporal punishment is in fact legal in Texasand 18 other states, according to The Center for Effective Disciplinewe're still poking around to find the research backing its effectiveness in the Lone Star State. Nothing so far. Readers, let us know what you come across.
(HT: Huffington Post.)
UPDATE: A spokesman for the Republican Party of Texas said that the "critical thinking skills" language should not have been included in the document after the words "values clarification," reports Talking Points Memo. The members of the subcommittee "regret" the mistake, he told TPMhowever, since the platform was approved, "it cannot be corrected until the next state convention in 2014."


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Love's Double Double Streak is Impressive but the NBA's Orwellian Memory Hole is DisturbingIn George Orwell's brilliant dystopian novel 1984, a totalitarian regime controls the future by rewriting the past, sending unfavorable historical facts down the "memory hole." Kevin Love's active points/rebounds double-double streak--which currently stands at 52 games--is most impressive, surpassing a 51 game streak that three-time NBA MVP Moses Malone compiled in 1978-79; any time a player does something that had not been done for over 30 years--particularly when the last player to do it was a Hall of Famer--he should receive much praise and I disagree with anyone who tries to diminish Love's feat by pointing to his team's lousy record; that criticism makes about as much sense as knocking Kobe Bryant's 81 point game because it came against the Toronto Raptors: if it were easy to score 81 points then someone else would have done it--Michael Jordan certainly would have hit that mark if he could have--and if it were easy to put up consecutive double-doubles for more than half of a season then many players would have done it in the past three decades.
However, contrary to the NBA's Orwellian hype machine, Love's accomplishment is not an NBA record--and it is disingenuous to speak of "modern" NBA records, as if everything that happened prior to the 1976-77 ABA-NBA merger took place in the Dark Ages before statistics could be tracked. It has been confirmed by the Associated Press and other sources that Wilt Chamberlain had a double-double streak of at least 220 games during his career; keep in mind that Chamberlain averaged 30.1 ppg and 22.9 rpg during his career--including a mindboggling 1962 season in which he averaged 50.4 ppg and 25.7 rpg and six other seasons in which he averaged at least 33.5 ppg and at least 22.9 rpg--so two words best describe a game in which Chamberlain merely managed a double-double: "off night." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elgin Baylor, Walt Bellamy, Elvin Hayes, Jerry Lucas and Bill Russell each had at least one streak of at least 50 games with a double-double.
It is senseless and disrespectful for the NBA to in any way diminish the accomplishments of the legends who built the game. Commissioner David Stern has repeatedly said that the Legends Brunch is his favorite event of All-Star Weekend; I would be more impressed if instead of talking a good game about the Legends Brunch he would act forcefully to make sure that the official record book--and the information that is fed to the NBA's media partners--completely and accurately reflects the true history of the sport. Commissioner Stern rightly takes swift action when coaches, players or other league employees act or talk in ways that place the league in an unfavorable light, so he should act equally forcefully to make sure that the history of the game is preserved and celebrated.
It must be added that this history simply has to include the ABA, just like NFL history includes the records and stories of the AFL. One of my earliest pro basketball articles dealt with the pro basketball subject that I feel most passionately about: ABA Numbers Should Also Count (and even though I disagreed with some of Brett Ballantini's subsequent editorial decisions at Basketball Digest, I have to give him credit for providing me the platform to state my case on this very important issue, an issue that Ballantini also feels very strongly about). I don't have complete game log data for the ABA but that information is probably available if one would track down all of the various ABA team media guides. Consider what we do know about two ABA legends who should have been inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame a long time ago:
1) Artis Gilmore, the 1972 ABA regular season MVP and 1975 ABA Playoff MVP, averaged at least 18.7 ppg and at least 15.3 rpg in each of his five ABA campaigns; he played all 84 games in each of those years, in four of those five seasons he averaged at least 20.8 ppg and in three of those five seasons he averaged at least 17.6 rpg. Gilmore almost certainly had a double-double streak of at least 50 games and he probably had some impressive 20-20 streaks as well.
2) Two-time ABA regular season MVP Mel Daniels--whose Hall of Fame worthiness has been praised by the great Julius Erving--averaged at least 18.5 ppg/15.4 rpg in each of his first six professional seasons and in three of those seasons he averaged at least 21 ppg and at least 15.6 rpg. Daniels probably had at least one double-double streak of 50 or more games.
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5.4 earthquake hits Southern California; felt in Los Angeles [Updated]
A 5.9 earthquake rocked Southern California this afternoon and was felt across a wide area.
According to U.S. Geological Survey, the quake hit at 4:53 p.m. near Borrego Springs, about 28 miles south of Palm Springs. It was followed by several small aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but some residents said the quake caused glass to break.
Its the latest in a string of powerful of quakes to hit Southern California in the last few months, ever since a 7.2 quake hit the Mexicali area on Easter Sunday.
[Updated at 5:07 p.m.: The USGS downgraded the quake to 5.4 magnitude. The Los Angeles Fire Department said it has not received reports of serious damage or injuries. Residents in Riverside County told The Times they felt a sharp jolt but have not witnessed major damage.
Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said that he experienced strong jolts at police headquarters but that there was no initial report of serious damage.
"So far everything is OK," Diaz said. "To me it felt like two separate events. The first felt like a foreshock; the second one was stronger."
"It was scary," said Celina Vega of Borrego Springs. "I can hardly talk because I'm still shaking. "
She said the earthquake hit as she was getting ready to go to work at Kendall's Cafe. "I screamed. Glasses fell at my house. We're not used to earthquakes here in Borrego Springs. When we felt it, oh my gosh, scary!"]
[Updated at 5:26 p.m.: The quake swayed skyscrapers in downtown San Diego, but there were no reports of damage there.
A rockslide was reported on a road outside of Palm Springs neat the aerial tramway, accord to the Desert Sun. But someone at the tramway restaurant told The Times there was no major damage. Palm Springs Fire Chief Blake Goetz told The Times that there was a rock slide near the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, but no damage to the Tramway itself.
Mary Jane Laws, an assistant manager at Center Market Grocery Store in Borrego Springs, said that a lot of products fell of the store shelves – but there was no major damage.
"I've been here 30 years and it was bigger than any of us have experienced," Laws said. "It shook up and down really hard. That was the big jolt, then back and forth. It feels like forever, but it was probably only 10 to 15 seconds."
There weren't many customers in the store when the quake hit, but Laws said, "The employees, they bolted. The cash registers are right by the door."
The residents are accustomed to an occasional temblor, but Laws said, "It was a little bit more than we're comfortable." At least for the evening, it will give the sleepy town something to chat about in the off season. "This place is going to be just atwitter," Laws said. "We'll be in the coffee shop, talking about all kinds of things."]
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