Why? Because ethics is the spiritual glue that holds your organization together. An organization?s ethics determines its character, its health and ultimately, its success. An organization?s values---what it stands for, what your people believe?are crucial to your competitive process. Indeed, values drive the business. Ethics must be brought to center stage.
You and I know this, yet the process of stepping back and taking a good hard look at how things are going, needs to happen more than we think.
To help with the analysis of where you are and where you may want to go in this endeavor, here?s a checklist to help you.
1. Examine your code of ethics (not code of conduct), i.e. how long ago was it written, who wrote it, who had input in its development and if it is older than three years, re-examine how relevant it is.
2. Is your code of ethics stated negatively or positively?
3. Has your ethics training been varied, customized, applicable, and ongoing? If not, why not? If so, how are you measuring it?
4. If your training budget was not a issue, what other options for training would you like see take place? How often? By whom?
5. Who provides your ethics training and how is it working for your organization?
6. Is your ethics training as important as your compliance training?.i.e a top priority, funded well, and supported by leadership.
7. What needs to be done by the end of the year, to fulfill the goal of ethics training for all employees? How will you accomplish this?
8. If your organization is an international company, how do you approach a global ethics initiative? Is it working?
As you reflect on these questions, please keep in mind that the focus here is on ethics not compliance, in being proactive in your training and being able to track productivity, behavior and morale to that same training.
The compliance/ethics groups on Linkedin, I have found, are a vast ocean of experience, training and wisdom that each of us can tap into when the need arises. Use these eight questions as a springboard for further analysis and further ideas for training and then when you identify a need, a lapse, etc. and don?t know where to get further information, ask your colleagues for help with ideas, resources and research.
General surgeons identify postoperative complications posing strongest readmission risk Public release date: 28-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sally Garneski Pressinquiry@facs.org 312-202-5409 American College of Surgeons
Findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons lead researchers to devise a patient safety plan to decrease complications for the benefit of patients and hospitals
Chicago(August 28, 2012) Postoperative complications are the most significant independent risk factor leading to 30-day hospital readmissions among general surgery patients, according to a new exploratory study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
"Hospital readmissions are the tip of the iceberg, but when you dig deeper, it is the postoperative complications that drive readmissions among general surgical patients," said senior study author John F. Sweeney, MD, FACS, chief, division of general and gastrointestinal surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. He also is director of the department of surgery's clinical quality and patient safety program. Dr. Sweeney and his coauthors note that, "Better understanding the predictors of readmission for general surgery patients will allow hospitals to develop programs to decrease readmission rates."
Researchers conducting this retrospective study analyzed patient records from hospitals that were enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), which is the leading nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of care in private sector hospitals. Data from Emory University Hospital was merged with ACS NSQIP data to identify unplanned readmissions.
Researchers reviewed the records of 1,442 general surgery patients who were operated on between 2009 and 2011. Of them, 163 patients, or 11.3 percent, were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. The researchers analyzed type of surgical procedure, postoperative complications, ICD-9 coding data, comorbidities, and patient demographics to identify common risk factors associated with readmissions.
"Surgical patients are different from medical patients because the surgical procedure, in and of itself, places them at risk for readmission to the hospital, above and beyond the medical problems," Dr. Sweeney said.
The study authors said the current focus on hospital readmission rates comes from changing regulations issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), now holding hospitals responsible for 30-day readmissions for medical diseases with a plan to follow suit for surgical patients. The CMS policy means reduction of hospital reimbursements based on an adjustment factor determined by a hospital's expected and observed 30-day readmission rates.
Researchers examined the reasons for hospital readmission and found specific surgical procedures, the number of postoperative complications each patient experienced, and the severity of complications were leading risk factors for readmission.
"Complex gastrointestinal procedures carry a higher risk of hospital readmission," said Dr. Sweeney. "Pancreatectomy, colectomy, and liver resection have a higher complication rate because of the surgical complexity."
Based on analysis of ICD-9 coding data, researchers reported that gastrointestinal complications carried a high27.6 percentrisk of readmission, while surgical infections reached 22.1 percent. These top two reasons accounted for nearly 50 percent of all readmissions according to the researchers.
Dr. Sweeney and colleagues found the more postoperative complications a patient experiences, the more likely the risk of readmission. "A patient who has one complication is more likely to be readmitted than a patient with no complications," Dr. Sweeney said. "The more complications a patient experiences, the more likely the readmission. In the hospital, a patient who experiences a complication has a lower risk of readmission compared with a patient who develops a complication after going home."
The research team reported that patients who had one or more complications after their operation were four times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared with those who had no complications. They found patients with the highest rate of readmissions were those who experienced two postoperative complications.
The study findings showed the median length of hospital stay was five days for patients with no complications; nine days for patients with one complication; and 24 days for patients with three or more complications.
Researchers found that patients with postoperative sepsis or urinary tract infections (UTIs) were about five times more likely to be readmitted than patients without these complications. Postoperative wound infection and postoperative pulmonary complications carried a 3.5 fold increase in readmission rates.
"The leading surgical complications are wound infections, pulmonary complications, and urinary tract infections," Dr. Sweeney said. "UTIs were the worst complication,
we found, although they don't happen frequently, but they are associated with the highest risk
of readmission," he said.
A reduction in postoperative complications would carry huge financial implications for hospitals, patients, and payers, according to Dr. Sweeney.
Dr. Sweeney reported that the results of this investigation provided a framework for his research team to develop a simple complication-prevention plan that minimizes the risk of surgical patients developing complications. This patient safety approach includes engaging
the postoperative care team to start transition-of-care planning earlyespecially for high risk patientsto encourage early discharge from the hospital.
"The biggest bang for the buck is going to be a combination of decrease of complica-tions, and decrease of length-of-stay, resulting in decrease of readmissions," Dr. Sweeney said. "Decreasing complications will benefit the patient, the hospital, and the payer, and will improve quality of care," he said. "It will decrease length-of-stay and decrease hospital readmissions,"
he concluded.
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This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging.
About the American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of sur-geons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 78,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. For more information, visit www.facs.org (.)
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General surgeons identify postoperative complications posing strongest readmission risk Public release date: 28-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sally Garneski Pressinquiry@facs.org 312-202-5409 American College of Surgeons
Findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons lead researchers to devise a patient safety plan to decrease complications for the benefit of patients and hospitals
Chicago(August 28, 2012) Postoperative complications are the most significant independent risk factor leading to 30-day hospital readmissions among general surgery patients, according to a new exploratory study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
"Hospital readmissions are the tip of the iceberg, but when you dig deeper, it is the postoperative complications that drive readmissions among general surgical patients," said senior study author John F. Sweeney, MD, FACS, chief, division of general and gastrointestinal surgery at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. He also is director of the department of surgery's clinical quality and patient safety program. Dr. Sweeney and his coauthors note that, "Better understanding the predictors of readmission for general surgery patients will allow hospitals to develop programs to decrease readmission rates."
Researchers conducting this retrospective study analyzed patient records from hospitals that were enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), which is the leading nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of care in private sector hospitals. Data from Emory University Hospital was merged with ACS NSQIP data to identify unplanned readmissions.
Researchers reviewed the records of 1,442 general surgery patients who were operated on between 2009 and 2011. Of them, 163 patients, or 11.3 percent, were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. The researchers analyzed type of surgical procedure, postoperative complications, ICD-9 coding data, comorbidities, and patient demographics to identify common risk factors associated with readmissions.
"Surgical patients are different from medical patients because the surgical procedure, in and of itself, places them at risk for readmission to the hospital, above and beyond the medical problems," Dr. Sweeney said.
The study authors said the current focus on hospital readmission rates comes from changing regulations issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), now holding hospitals responsible for 30-day readmissions for medical diseases with a plan to follow suit for surgical patients. The CMS policy means reduction of hospital reimbursements based on an adjustment factor determined by a hospital's expected and observed 30-day readmission rates.
Researchers examined the reasons for hospital readmission and found specific surgical procedures, the number of postoperative complications each patient experienced, and the severity of complications were leading risk factors for readmission.
"Complex gastrointestinal procedures carry a higher risk of hospital readmission," said Dr. Sweeney. "Pancreatectomy, colectomy, and liver resection have a higher complication rate because of the surgical complexity."
Based on analysis of ICD-9 coding data, researchers reported that gastrointestinal complications carried a high27.6 percentrisk of readmission, while surgical infections reached 22.1 percent. These top two reasons accounted for nearly 50 percent of all readmissions according to the researchers.
Dr. Sweeney and colleagues found the more postoperative complications a patient experiences, the more likely the risk of readmission. "A patient who has one complication is more likely to be readmitted than a patient with no complications," Dr. Sweeney said. "The more complications a patient experiences, the more likely the readmission. In the hospital, a patient who experiences a complication has a lower risk of readmission compared with a patient who develops a complication after going home."
The research team reported that patients who had one or more complications after their operation were four times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared with those who had no complications. They found patients with the highest rate of readmissions were those who experienced two postoperative complications.
The study findings showed the median length of hospital stay was five days for patients with no complications; nine days for patients with one complication; and 24 days for patients with three or more complications.
Researchers found that patients with postoperative sepsis or urinary tract infections (UTIs) were about five times more likely to be readmitted than patients without these complications. Postoperative wound infection and postoperative pulmonary complications carried a 3.5 fold increase in readmission rates.
"The leading surgical complications are wound infections, pulmonary complications, and urinary tract infections," Dr. Sweeney said. "UTIs were the worst complication,
we found, although they don't happen frequently, but they are associated with the highest risk
of readmission," he said.
A reduction in postoperative complications would carry huge financial implications for hospitals, patients, and payers, according to Dr. Sweeney.
Dr. Sweeney reported that the results of this investigation provided a framework for his research team to develop a simple complication-prevention plan that minimizes the risk of surgical patients developing complications. This patient safety approach includes engaging
the postoperative care team to start transition-of-care planning earlyespecially for high risk patientsto encourage early discharge from the hospital.
"The biggest bang for the buck is going to be a combination of decrease of complica-tions, and decrease of length-of-stay, resulting in decrease of readmissions," Dr. Sweeney said. "Decreasing complications will benefit the patient, the hospital, and the payer, and will improve quality of care," he said. "It will decrease length-of-stay and decrease hospital readmissions,"
he concluded.
###
This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging.
About the American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of sur-geons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 78,000 members and is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. For more information, visit www.facs.org (.)
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The beginning of continuous drinking water systems or water macines can be dated as back as the early 1900s. They are easily available online in UK and are becoming an essential part of homes and offices alike.
Water is an essential part of our life. Almost 70 percent of our body is constituted of water. It is easier to skip one's time's meal but leaving drinking water is next to impossible. Ever imagined how life would be if fresh, hygienic and good-tasting drinking water is not available all the time? Tough.... isn't it? Probably that is the main reason behind this valuable development by Halsey Willard Taylor and Luther Haws, who developed a drinking fountain in the early 1900s after observing how increasingly important it was to make hygienic water available for drinking. As a matter of fact, Halsey Willard Taylor took up the task the of providing safe and drinkable water to common people as a challenge, particularly after losing his father due to typhoid caused by drinking contaminated water. And so was the first form of water cooler born!!
These clean water fountains were a source of hygienic drinking water in most of the communal buildings such as schools, factories, etc. for many years. This success of drinking fountains was succeeded by the invention of first refrigerated water coolers in the form of bulky floor standing units based on belt-driven ammonia compressors to chill the water. These water coolers were good to provide chilled drinking water to people but were quite cumbersome in looks and installation.
Right from thereon, beginning 1950s, water coolers saw an evolution and constant upgradations only towards improvement. The initial wall-mounted water coolers, often meant for school environments also saw consistent improvisations in them.
Till date, water machines have been changing their forms for the better, to serve homes, offices, schools, factories and many other public places with safe and chilled drinking water. In fact, in UK it is a legal obligation under the Safe Drinking Water Act and State Legislation which requires professional plumbing contractors, engineers, architects, etc. answerable for the quality of water from the products they offer to install.
Water systems can be broadly categorised under 3 types, viz., bottled water coolers, plumbed in water cooler and continuous hot water systems. While bottled water coolers need a bottle of water to be fitted and replaced every time the bottle is used, plumbed in water coolers are fitted with the mains supply, providing cold drinking filtered water continuously. Similarly, continuous hot water systems provide hot water constantly, which are very useful in offices for the regular tea and coffee requirement of the staff.
Buying a water dispensers is easy now. There is a huge variety available online terms of style, size, colour and pricing. You just need to ensure that you are buying a water cooler in UK from a renowned company.
John Taylor Providing information and advice on the health and lifestyle benefits of drinking water. For further information on bottled water, Water Coolers UK and Home Water Coolers.
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Some people love Microsoft?s new logo. Some people hate it. However, most agree it looks like a mashup of Google and Apple?s design elements.
The symbol next to the name looks straight out of Google?s design portfolio. Then, as shown more precisely after the jump, the Segoe font looks very similar to Adobe?s Myriad Pro, most famously used throughout Apple products. It?s hard to argue that Microsoft didn?t look to the other brands for at least a little inspiration.
Brands always face backlash when rebranding. We did. As explained by Amit Vit in a TCTV interview with our Colleen Taylor yesterday, the logo is simply ?meh?. It?s not offensive in any way, but not that inspiring either. It recalls previous Microsoft product logos, like ones used for Windows Phone or Microsoft Stores, but also looks very similar to Apple?s as shown by the chart below, made by Andrew Watson, a self-professed Google and Apple fanboi. His clever and simple chart shows the stark similarities between the two brands? typeface.
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Why Ecommerce is so popular:As a increasing demand of ecommerce for the reason of online shopping. In 2012 ecommerce industry is more popular than 2011 and 2010. There are lots of ecommerce market places are available for selling and buying services and products as per your convenient.
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An anatomically modern human skull uncovered in Laos's 'Cave of the Monkeys,' could shed light on human migration patterns out of Africa.?
By Charles Choi,?LiveScience Contributor / August 20, 2012
A reconstruction of the human skull discovered in Tam Pa Ling.
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Newfound pieces of human skull from "the Cave of the Monkeys" in Laos are the earliest skeletal evidence yet that humans once had an ancient, rapid migration to Asia.
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Anatomically modern humans first arose about 200,000 years ago in Africa. When and how our lineage then dispersed?out of Africa?has long proven controversial.
Archaeological evidence and genetic data suggest that?modern humans rapidly migrated out of Africa?and into Southeast Asia by at least 60,000 years ago. However, complicating this notion is the notable absence of fossil evidence for modern human occupation in mainland Southeast Asia, likely because those bones do not survive well in the warm, tropical region.
Now a partial skull from Tam Pa Ling, "the Cave of the Monkeys" in northern Laos helps fill in this mysterious gap in the fossil record. [See Photos of "Monkey Cave" Fossils]
"Most surprising is the fact that we found anything at all," researcher Laura Lynn Shackelford, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Illinois, told LiveScience. "Most people didn't think we'd find anything in these caves, or even in the region where we're working in mainland Southeast Asia. But we're stubborn, gone where no one's really looked before, or at least in almost a century."
Rough terrain, persistent scientists
The fossils were discovered in 2009 in?the limestone cave, which is located at the top of the Pa Hang Mountain 3,840 feet (1,170 meters) above sea level.
"The cave is surrounded by lots of papaya and banana trees, so a troop of monkeys likes to come and forage there, therefore its name," Shackelford said.
There were many challenges working in this area.
"It's incredibly difficult to access the site ? it's only 150 miles (240 kilometers) from the capital, but it takes us two days to drive there because of the rough terrain," Shackelford said. "We have to hike up the side of a cliff, do a bit of rock-climbing to get to the mouth of the cave, and then going in, we have to go 60 meters (200 ft) down a slope of wet clay. We also have to carry a generator and lights with us to see in the cave. We have to push pigs out of the way to get through the jungle ? there are just pigs wandering around there." [Amazing Caves: Photos of Earth's Innards]
"Every bit of clay has to be removed and taken back up by hand, trowel and bucket, so work is incredibly slow," she added. "We only go in the dry season in the winter, so we don't really have to deal with insects and snakes ? well, we did have snakes fall into the pit while excavating. And in the cave, we've had more than our fair share of spiders and bats."
The next generation iPhone is expected to be launched in just over a month and the leaks for this upcoming handset are happening aplenty. The latest component from the next generation iPhone that has been snapped is the battery and though most people expected the battery of the iPhone 5 to have a significant improvement over the one used on the iPhone 4S, it appears that this is not the case. A report by 9to5Mac has stated the next iPhone will feature a 1440mAh battery, up by 10mAh from the one used in the iPhone 4S.
The report states, ?A reliable parts source sent us images of new iPhone battery packs that they received. Notably, these new battery packs sport a higher capacity than the packs in previous generations of Apple?s smartphone. This new battery features a capacity of 1440 mAh. That is up from the capacity of 1430 mAh on the iPhone 4S and up from 1420 mAh on the iPhone 4, according to iPhone repair shop iFixYouri, whom examined the battery photos.?
Appears to be only a marginal improvement
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Elaborating on the battery, the report also states that the voltage of the battery has also been increased to 3.8 and it has been raised from 3.7 which is found on both, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The report also goes on to state, ?The new battery also has an increased watts-per-hour measurement (wHr), 5.45 wHr, which is an increase from 5.25 and 5.3 on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, respectively. This is a proportional increase due to the increase from 1430 to 1440 mAh.?
The next iPhone is highly expected to feature LTE connectivity and hence, a larger battery is believed to be used with it. If rumours of LTE are true and these batteries are in fact for the iPhone 5, then it can be possible that these batteries can be capable of handling LTE connectivity.
There are other points of interest also surrounding the upcoming flagship smartphone from Apple and two rumours of the iPhone 5 seem to be consistent for quite a while now. One is that the iPhone 5 will have a redesigned casing with a larger display, and the other is that it will feature a micro dock. The next iPhone is expected to feature a major design overhaul and is said to be much bigger, measuring 58.47 mm wide, 123.83 mm high and 7.6 mm thin with a 4-inch display. As previous reports have indicated, the headphone jack will also be relocated from the top of the iPhone to its bottom. Earlier reports also indicated that the size of the dock has been reduced drastically, and it is now the size of a micro USB. The screen size of the iPhone has remained the same since it was first launched. Apple is expected to increase the size of the display to 4-inches diagonally. While the width will not change, the brand will raise the height, thereby giving it a resolution of 1136 x 640.
Let us know your thoughts on the possibility of Apple using a 1440mAh battery in the iPhone 5 in the comments below.
MATTHEWS, NC - As preseason NFL rolls on, the whistle blows on high school football.
While classes for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools won't start until August 27, "Friday Night Lights" go on this week. The buzz is over two powerhouse programs playing each other right from the start.
"We're one day and 52 minutes (away) right now."
Before the start of practice, Butler High football coach Brian Hales counts down for his players to the start of their season.
This year's seniors remember a stinging play-off loss in the fall. Now, their target, is another run at the state finals.
"I know how hard these guys work," said Hales, "and I know what their expectations are for the season, and they are the same as the coaching staff."
In the first few games, coaches see what improvements are needed to have a good year.
For Butler, the first game could set the tone towards a championship.
"Really as a group we have a determined winning mindset, never losing," said senior wide receiver Uriah LeMay.
He also says there's no pressure being ranked number one, and playing nationally ranked Mallard Creek High School right from the start.
But while Butler's game Friday night at Memorial Stadium will get a lot of attention, high school football really began Thursday, with the junior varsity teams.
This year, schools like Providence and Hopewell High Schools will play two games before classes start. And that's just fine for one football parent.
"I think a lot of people would like to be on vacation, but you know, we run our life around football," said Joy Chadwick, who's two sons play for the Titans.
With parents and kids preparing to attend football games, CMS says security measures - such as limiting entrance location and having off-duty police officers present - will provide maximum protection.
And it's not just teams like South Mecklenburg High and Charlotte Catholic that get a brush up with an early season start. Fans can also practice getting fired up.
"I kind of like it," said Margie Vermillion, who's son plays for the Cougars J-V team. "They're used to the football and then they can get into their studies easier."
The DNC will also impact high school football. CMS games the Friday before the Convention, on August 31, move to that Thursday. Then afterward, games on Friday, September 7, move to Saturday.
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine watches during batting practice before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine watches during batting practice before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine watches from the dugout in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, right, talks with, from lef, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz and first base coach Alex Ochoa in the dugout before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, right, talks with, from left, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz and first base coach Alex Ochoa in the dugout before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, right, talks with third baseman Nick Punto (5) during batting practice before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
BOSTON (AP) ? None of the Boston Red Sox players in a series of meetings with the team's top brass called for manager Bobby Valentine to be replaced, owner John Henry said Wednesday.
Henry issued a statement one day after Yahoo! Sports reported that several players met with him and team president Larry Lucchino in New York on July 27 to complain about Valentine's handling of the team. Chairman Tom Werner was also at the meeting.
Henry said he called the meeting, and it "quickly went to the point ? what do we need to do to turn things around?"
"No one in that meeting at any time took the position that Bobby should be or needed to be replaced," Henry wrote.
Henry said players took responsibility for the team's performance; the Red Sox were 57-60, 12? games out of first place in the AL East, heading into Wednesday night's game in Baltimore against the Orioles.
"They weren't blaming injuries or anyone but themselves," Henry wrote. "At the same time they openly spoke about what could improve in addition to their play. They made substantive points. We addressed those points."
Valentine also declined to point fingers.
"Personally, I think we're in it together," he said. "I think we're going to get hot."
Henry said he called a similar meeting "about this time eight years ago," a reference to the 2004 season in which the Red Sox won the World Series for first time in 86 years. This time, the meeting was divided up into three parts, Henry said, "separating groups so as to have frank discussions about what was wrong."
Henry also complained in his statement about the details of the meeting going public.
"I understand that when the team isn't playing up to our standards that issues are going to be sensationalized," he wrote. "But what is important for Red Sox fans to know is that ownership, players and all staff especially Bobby Valentine are determined to turn around what has thus far been an unacceptable, failed season. We are all on the same page in that regard and will not waver."
Valentine also said he regretted that details had gone public, but he said that the controversy hasn't weighed on him.
"If we were 10 games over .500 and in first place, he wouldn't have to make any statements," the manager said.
Valentine was hired last offseason to replace Terry Francona, who was let go after the team went 7-20 in September to blow what had seemed like a certain playoff berth. Valentine said he wanted to change the culture of a clubhouse where players ate fried chicken and drank beer during games, rather than sitting in the dugout to support their teammates.
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz defended the manager.
"He does his job," Buchholz said. "When something goes wrong, somebody has to be blamed for it and it's usually us. ... He's doing a good job. It's a game, man, it doesn't always work."
Valentine said he planned to be back in 2013.
"And '14 and '15," he said. "That's what I'm hoping."
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AP Sports Writer David Ginsburg contributed to this story from Baltimore.
Back in November of 2003, the White House was worried. So were House Republican leaders.
At issue: President George W. Bush had to use all of his political clout to get enough House Republicans to pass his proposed Medicare prescription-drug benefit. Many House Republicans balked at the cost, and some had to be confronted on the floor to get them to vote for the largest entitlement expansion since the Great Society programs of the 1960s. One House member said she hid out, avoiding making contact with House leaders. At one point, the vote was stopped, and the clock and even the C-SPAN cameras were frozen for three hours so GOP leaders could round up the votes. One of the votes for the package was Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Despite a shaky start, the benefit, also called Medicare Part D, proved immensely popular?and expensive. According to a report by the then-Comptroller General David Walker, the benefit contained $8 trillion in unfunded liabilities. (Current estimates have it more in the $7 trillion range.)
Ryan has often said that he regretted the big spending during the Bush era and that he often cast votes that he regretted. But that doesn?t belie the fact that Ryan, despite his reputation as a fiscal hawk, has voted for some pricey items over the years that have added to the debt burden of the United States.
The prescription-drug benefit may be the most pertinent example, because so many Republicans balked at its price tag and its expansion of the federal role in health care. (Many Democrats liked the idea of a drug benefit for seniors but did not like the restrictions on the federal government negotiating prices for pharmaceuticals that might have kept the cost of drugs down, as it has for, say, Veterans Affairs.) Any number of notable Republicans bucked the president, including some who ran for president this year, such as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Rick Santorum, then the junior senator from Pennsylvania.
Walker argues that, in fact, 2003 was a particularly bad year for America?s fiscal health. First, the country passed the second round of Bush tax cuts, which, Walker notes, came after the country had already gone back to running deficits. The first round of Bush cuts in 2001 came when the country was running a surplus. Second was the enormous Medicare prescription drug benefit, and the third was the invasion of Iraq, for which no taxes were levied. ?2003 was arguably our most fiscally irresponsible year,? Walker told National Journal.
The Bush tax cuts added some $2.8 trillion to the national debt, according to the Congressionla Budget Office. Ryan voted for those cuts, although defenders argue that without their stimulative effect on the economy, growth would have slowed. Ryan also backed the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout, most of which has been paid back, and the auto bailout.
As Reihan Salam noted in the National Review on Tuesday afternoon, Ryan?s support of the Medicare prescription-drug debate came after he argued for keeping it wed to a premium support plan, the kind of quasi-voucher plan that made it into the much-discussed ?Ryan plan.? That Ryan stuck with the prescription-drug benefit even after it was severed from his premium support plan, Salam argues, is proof that Ryan is either flexible or an opportunist, but not the budget-slashing ideologue that he?s been portrayed as.
Another way of looking at it is that Ryan is capable of cognitive dissonance?holding conflicting ideas at the same time. His plan does reduce Medicare spending dramatically by turning it into a program where seniors are encouraged to take a government subsidy and by putting health insurance on the open market. He cuts Medicaid, the program for the poor, even more dramatically, essentially turning it into block grants for the states. Walker says that Ryan ?should be commended for having the courage to lay out a comprehensive and bold plan that represents his view that government has grown too big and needs transformational change.?
At the same time, his plan promises enormous tax cuts that would be paid for by an unspecified rollback of loopholes that would account for the lower rates. Pulling that off would require razing deductions to an extent unheard of in the 1986 tax reform that Ryan has cited as part of his inspiration. When you combine that with Ryan?s big spending, you have a candidate with a profoundly mixed record best understood in context and not with slogans.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Roy Halladay is starting to feel in sync again. So are the Phillies.
Halladay pitched eight innings and Chase Utley hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth to lift Philadelphia to a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.
It was the second straight outstanding outing for Halladay (6-6), who missed 42 games while on the disabled list with a strained lat. He returned July 17 and struggled in his first three starts back, going 0-1 with a 5.82 ERA. He threw seven innings in a 3-0 victory over Arizona on Saturday.
The right-hander matched a season low by allowing just two hits, while striking out eight and walking none to help Philadelphia win its fourth game in the last six.
"I feel more in sync now than I did early on," Halladay said. "I had a hard time, I just didn't feel together. I didn't feel like everything was kind of clicking. More so the last two starts, I've felt like that's been better."
He didn't allow a hit after Jon Jay's two-out single in the third, retiring 16 of his final 17 batters. The only hitter to reach base was Yadier Molina, who got to first after being hit on the left elbow leading off the fifth.
"For me, it's mechanics," Halladay said. "It's getting my arm in the right position. I feel like I wasn't doing that and everything kind of wasn't tied together. I didn't feel like my lower half was tied together with my upper half.
"When you do that it kind of feels like you're fighting yourself a little bit. So I definitely feel like it's been tied together a little better."
The Cardinals threatened in the ninth off Jonathan Papelbon, who pitched a scoreless inning for his 25th save in 28 chances. Papelbon gave up a one-out double to Allen Craig and a two-out single to Carlos Beltran to put runners on first and third. But Papelbon got Beltran trying to steal second, throwing ahead of the runner to easily get Beltran after he left first base too early.
"I got a little anxious," Beltran said. "There's no guarantee we would win the game, but you can't end a game like that."
Beltran homered for the Cardinals, who have lost three of four.
Jimmy Rollins led off the eighth with a single to left off reliever Barret Browning (0-1), went to second on the left-hander's balk and to third on Juan Pierre's sacrifice bunt before scoring on Utley's towering homer to right-center that gave Philadelphia a 3-1 lead.
"You're not trying to do too much, you're trying to get that guy in any way you can," Utley said. "That one felt pretty good. I squared that one up decently."
Utley credited Halladay for keeping the Phillies in a position for the victory.
"He was mixing his pitches, throwing strikes with all his pitches," Utley said. "The Cardinals have a very good offensive team. For him to pitch like that against those guys, it tells you something."
The loss ruined another solid effort by Cardinals starter Kyle Lohshe.
The right-hander has been stellar all season and was 6-0 in his last nine starts entering Friday. He had given up two earned runs or less in eight of the nine outings with a 2.52 ERA in those starts.
He allowed one run and four hits while setting a season high with seven strikeouts in seven innings. Lohse, who walked two, allowed only three batters to reach second base.
"Everything was working for him," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "He pitched seven solid innings. You couldn't ask for more."
Said Lohse, "My change was real good. They stacked their lineup with left-handers. I knew I had to get it going and I did. It's a tough loss but we'll get over it."
Lohse was pinch hit for with two outs in the eighth, but Halladay struck out Matt Carpenter.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel was glad to see Lohse leave the game.
"He did the same thing Roy did, he was very good," Manuel said. "When he left the game, I was sitting there thinking, `That's good."'
Beltran's leadoff homer to right in the second gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead.
The Phillies tied the score in the bottom of the inning. Ryan Howard opened it with a double to right and scored on Domonic Brown's single that glanced off the glove of diving second baseman Daniel Descalso and into short right field.
Notes: The Phillies inducted former C Mike Lieberthal into the club's Wall of Fame in a pregame ceremony that was attended by Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton, among other Phillies greats. ... St. Louis called up INF Ryan Jackson from Triple-A Memphis before the game. ... Phillies minor leaguer Gabriel Bermudez was suspended 50 games for a violation of Major League Baseball's drug policy. Bermudez was playing on the club's Venezuelan Summer League team. ... The three-game series continues Saturday night with Philadelphia LHP Cliff Lee (2-6, 3.78) scheduled to face Cardinals RHP Jake Westbrook (11-8, 3.76).
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GENEVA?? Scientists who stunned the world with their discovery of a particle that may be the basic building block of the universe now are on the lookout for a hitherto unseen world of particles that could open the way to finalizing a "theory of everything."
CERN scientists, who announced last month that ? almost certainly ? the elusive Higgs boson had been spotted, are trawling through the vast volume of material produced in the Geneva research center's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for signs of what they call "SUSY."
Formally known as Supersymmetry, SUSY is the idea that every one of the elementary particles that make up the universe and everything in it has an almost, but not quite identical, "superpartner."
"SUSY is still a very valid option and we have just started to constrain it on the energy scale," CERN particle physicist Oliver Buchmueller told Reuters.
"There are many regions on the map of where it should be that we have still to explore."
Its existence, many researchers say, was supported by the presumed discovery of the Higgs with which, physicists say, it is inextricably linked.
"Supersymmetry," leading U.S. theoretician Matt Strassler says, "is a conjectured symmetry of space and time." It could be integrated with Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to provide a fuller explanation of the laws of nature.
Physicists say SUSY may explain the invisible dark matter that makes up around 80 percent of the solid substance of the universe, and would provide backing for "string theory" ? a leading contender for a "theory of everything."
String theory holds that instead of particles, the universe is composed of microscopic strings.
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That overarching view would replace the present explanation of how the universe works ? the Standard Model, which was developed in the 1970s but has glaring gaps, including where gravity fits into the picture.
Searching for SUSY ? or proving it a chimera ? was always part of the program for the subterranean LHC, in which particles are smashed together at near light-speed to create billions of explosions like the primeval Big Bang.
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer regularly includes it as one of the "New Physics" goals for the LHC. But some advance predictions before the giant machine began operations in March 2010 suggested SUSY signals could turn up quickly.
The fact that this has not proven to be the case has led to speculation in parts of the scientific media and blogosphere, as well as among some older researchers, that SUSY-hunting is taking particle physics up a blind alley.
"Is Supersymmetry dead?" asked a headline in the respected journal Scientific American in April this year. Writers on science websites have taken up the theme, suggesting that SUSY had better appear soon or it would indeed be defunct.
CERN's Buchmueller, who works on one of the LHC's two largest experiments, the CMS, and his colleague on the alternative ATLAS, Paul de Jong, strongly disagree.
"There is no scientific basis for that claim," said the German researcher, who shares time between Geneva and teaching at London's Imperial College of Science and Technology. "The theory is still very much alive."
"Supersymmetry is one of the most compelling possible extensions of the Standard Model and a leading contender for a new principle of nature than can be discovered in high-energy colliders," the pair said in a recent joint paper.
Other physicists at CERN and in research centers around the world argue that supersymmetrical particles are more likely to be spotted from early 2015 when the power of the LHC and the impact of its particle collisions will have been doubled.
"This was always going to be a long haul," Buchmueller said.
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The Obama administration is authorizing an additional $30 million to help farmers and ranchers in areas hit by the severe drought.
"This has been an all-hands-on-deck response? But obviously, we've got a lot more to do because a lot of folks are being affected by this," President Obama told reporters at a White House meeting on the drought response.
Obama announced a series of steps to aid families and businesses impacted by the worst drought in 25 years, including increasing lending to small businesses and a Department of Transportation initiative to help commercial truck drivers provide much-needed supplies to the affected areas.
"We're going to continue to solicit ideas from state and local organizations, state-based organizations, not-for-profit groups, the private sector, and most of all, the farmers and ranchers that are directly impacted, to find additional ways that we can help because when there's a disaster like this, everybody needs to pull together," he said.
The president called on Congress to pass the farm bill to "not only provide important disaster relief tools, but also make necessary reforms and give farmers the certainty that they deserve."
"My hope is that Congress, many of whom will be traveling back to their districts, in some cases in rural communities, and see what's taking place there, will feel a greater sense of urgency and be prepared to get this done immediately upon their return," he said.
Lena Henderson and Roland Davis, 85, got married as teenagers during WWII before splitting up in 1964 ... then got married again this weekend!
"I always thought it might happen," Davis, a veteran whose second wife died in January, told the Buffalo News. "It was always in the back of my mind."
"We're just thankful that we could get back together."
"I think that we just kept thinking about each other, even though we were so far apart," said Henderson, also a widow after her second marriage.
After divorcing in 1964 - neither will say why - they kept in touch, even as Davis moved around the world. His new wife even used to call Henderson for advice.
Before this year, they last saw each other in 1996 at a family funeral. They grew closer in recent months before the big question was popped.
Davis proposed over the phone at Easter. He arrived in N.Y. State from Colorado Springs with a ring "pinned to my T-shirt" so he wouldn't lose it.
With four generations of family watching, including their four children, the forever lovers re-tied the knot at a church, which they didn't do as teens.
To their kids, the wedding wasn't as surprising as you might think.
"The way they would act to each other never indicated there was anything but a friendship between them," said their youngest daughter, Renita Chadwick.
"My mother never had a harsh or contrary word to say about my dad, and my dad never had anything but loving remarks to make about my mother."
"Every person I share this story with smiles, cries or laughs."
SOUTH BEND - The reflective thoughts arrive when John Goodman is walking across campus, savoring the beauty of one last summer and fall in South Bend, one that he didn't always know would be there for him.
At times, he will observe teammates, almost all of them younger than him, and think to himself that this could be a special group coming together.
And it's at those times that Goodman truly appreciates where he is and what he has, and that's a 2012 season in which to play college football.
"I would have missed out on something great," Goodman says, "if I wouldn't have gotten that fifth year."
When Goodman arrived at Notre Dame in 2008 and subsequently redshirted that season, a fifth year in 2012 seemed like a no-brainer. The following year, when he caught his first career touchdown pass, a 64-yarder from fellow redshirt freshman Dayne Crist on which he showed good route-running, sure hands and plus speed, it seemed cemented that Goodman would be an integral part of the Irish passing game for a full four years.
But his production never really matched that initial potential. That touchdown reception remains the only one of his career; in fact he has thrown as many touchdowns as he has caught.
He's had his fair share of snaps at receiver, but never really has become a vital part of the passing game. Last year the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Goodman was ND's primary punt returner, and in turn, fair or not, became the de facto face of what was a woeful unit.
So as the season dragged on, Goodman wondered if he'd be back in South Bend in 2012 catching passes or somewhere else trying to catch on in the real world.
"It was nerve-racking because I didn't know if I was going to get it or not," Goodman said.
"Towards the whole end of the second half of the season, it was, 'What am I going to do with my life after college if I don't get this fifth year,' because either I get a full year of college or I'm straight into the real world, and that would have been a hell of a change from college football."
Change was going on all around him. Classmates were graduating, some moving on to the "real world" that Goodman wasn't quite ready for, some moving on to the NFL. They were also moving to other schools, namely Crist, the displaced starter who is now the No. 1 QB at Kansas, as well as linebacker Anthony McDonald and sixth-year tight end Mike Ragone.
Elsewhere may have been a fit for those three, but playing a fifth year anywhere else wasn't in Goodman's thought process.
"No, probably not," Goodman said. "I'm all Notre Dame. I grew up Notre Dame. I committed here for a reason. I wouldn't want to switch anywhere else and I want to graduate from here and stay here as long as possible, and if I hadn't gotten it, then I probably would have just ended football."
Instead, the end of his career will begin with Goodman likely starting at the spot vacated when Michael Floyd took his talent, and a whole lot of receiving records, to the NFL. Floyd's departure left a big void at the position, but Goodman has a resolve that he can become a main cog in the offense.
"I need to go out and just take the position and make sure it's mine and not even let there be any competition for it, kind of like Mike last year and the years before, how he went out and kept the position and dominated on the field," Goodman said. "That's what's in my head right now ? just dominating on the field in practice and for the (rest of fall camp) and then going and (playing) Navy and doing the same thing, if not beating them even worse than I could these DBs.
"You've got to have that confidence and that's something I believe I can do."
Through three years, the numbers that some expected of Goodman ? as a high school senior he was selected to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl ? haven't been there. The touchdown reception his sophomore season was one of only six passes he caught that year. That total jumped to 15 in 2010 but dipped to seven last season. In the meantime, the teams he's been a member of have compiled 7-6, 6-6, 8-5 and 8-5 records. Expectations for 2012 are higher, team-wise and individually, and a big reason why Goodman so badly wanted the fifth year.
"We haven't necessarily accomplished anything yet, especially me as an individual. I just wanted to get better. I totally believe I can have a good season this year," said Goodman, who seems more resolved, more focused and, as a result, more grown up this fall.
"I just didn't want to go out on the streets basically when I knew that I had the ability to do something special. I definitely want to leave my mark and I just felt like I had that chance and the ability to do that. Now I do, and it's really special to me and it's something I'm not going to take for granted."
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