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(-) NHS finances
The NHS and climate change: a decade of distraction
As the realities of climate change become ever clearer, Chris Naylor explores how the NHS has responded to the challenge so far, and why it needs to do more to overcome the 'tyranny of now'.
By Chris Naylor - 25 April 2019
NICE at 20: a cause for celebration
Nicholas Timmins celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and considers the challenges ahead.
By Nicholas Timmins - 29 March 2019
The NHS needs to be more productive – or is it more efficient?
Stop reading this and get back to work – you need to be more productive. Or is it more efficient? David Maguire explores the difference between productivity and efficiency in the NHS long-term plan.
By David Maguire - 12 March 2019
2019: handling the uncertainty
Richard Murray reflects on the opportunities and challenges that 2019 may bring, as well as the need for flexibility in the face of uncertainty.
By Richard Murray - 2 January 2019
Prevention is better than cure – except when it comes to paying for it
The government's emphasis on prevention is welcome, but resources have not been following the rhetoric. David Buck analyses the latest data on local government public health spending.
By David Buck - 21 November 2018
Round two for STP plans: a fresh start or a dangerous distraction?
A new round of planning for sustainability and transformation partnerships must allow for greater collaboration between key stakeholders to bring about real improvements in population health.
By Anna Charles - 15 November 2018
Mental health funding in the 2018 Autumn Budget: the devil will be in the detail
While the additional funding for mental health services announced in this week's Budget is welcome, it will take more than money to deliver parity of esteem.
By Helen Gilburt - 31 October 2018
What should the NHS long-term plan say about STPs and ICSs?
Is the integration of health and social care moving too fast for the current legal framework? Chris Ham identifies five steps to support the continuing transformation by aligning regulation, policy and practice.
The puzzle of STPs in London
Why are London's sustainability and transformation partnerships trailing behind those in other places? Chris Ham highlights some answers and recommendations in our new report.
A short history of NHS winter funding
The NHS relies on the reoccurrence of supposedly non-recurrent winter funding, but is still kept on its toes each year wondering how much money will be available and when it will be provided. Siva Anandaciva looks at how it works.
By Siva Anandaciva - 11 October 2018
From lab to bedside: ensuring new medicines are available in a cost-effective and timely way
David Omojomolo explores the challenge of offering new medicines within current financial restraints.
By David Omojomolo - 31 July 2018
The NHS 10-year plan: how much will be spent on NHS deficits?
Richard Murray calls for the reform of the NHS's current Byzantine financial system.
By Richard Murray - 23 July 2018
The NHS 10-year plan: transformation holds the key to sustainability
Chris Ham calls for the NHS 10-year plan to outline realistic ambitions to transform health and care over the next decade, focused on improving population health and a new deal with the public.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 12 July 2018
The changing shape of NHS finances
As austerity and widespread staffing shortages began to bite over the past decade, the finances of NHS providers often took a familiar shape each year. But more recently this pattern of financial performance has been increasingly pulled out of shape and distorted.
By Siva Anandaciva - 10 July 2018
NHS funding: what we know, what we don't know and what comes next
As the dust settles on the new NHS funding announcement, Richard Murray explores what to expect over the next few months.
By Richard Murray - 27 June 2018
How does the NHS compare internationally on its spending and key resources?
The UK health care system is not alone in the challenges it faces. What can we learn from how other countries have equipped themselves to deal with a growing and ageing population and changing health care needs?
By Siva Anandaciva - 5 May 2018
NHS medicines provision: a tricky balancing act
With medicines spending growing at a time of NHS funding restraint, difficult choices lie ahead for policy-makers. Leo Ewbank assesses the current situation and looks at what the future may hold.
By Leo Ewbank - 27 April 2018


A heartwarming dinner with a bit of a twist. This Shepard's pie has lentils in it to bulk it up and a super tasty sweet potato topping. Tasty and good for you.
Preheat oven to 200'c. In a frying pan fry the mince until browned. Add the onions, carrots and garlic to the mince and stir for 5mins. Add the stock, worcestershire sauce, vegemite and lentils. Season well.
Reduce the heat and simmer for 10mins.
Whilst the sauce is simmering, steam the potatoes (I do this in my pressure cooker for 10mins). When potato is cooked, mash it together with the yoghurt. Add the chives and mix well.
Pour the mince mixture into an ovenproof dish, top with sweet potato mash and bake for 25 mins or until the top is golden.
If you're anything like my family, you always have a taco night each week. I always like to try new things for tea to keep the meals interesting and i've seen alot of these one pot meals with pasta. I thought id give it ago trying to combine pasta and tacos and i've created this Taco Pasta. It simple to make and tastes amazing! My husband was a big fan! The best thing about this dish is that its all in one, Create, make and serve all in the same pot! WINNING!
Preheat a large pot over medium heat. Add beef mince and seasoning, season well. Cook, stirring occasionally until cooked thorough. Stir in water, salsa and uncooked pasta. Stir, cover and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook for about 12/15 minutes until pasta is tender. Turn off heat and stir in cheese. Serve with toppings.
A simple and super easy frittata. Using a frying pan to cook, you will need an ovenproof pan for this recipe. You can add other veggies to get more veg into your meal, great served with a side salad.
Heat oil in a large frying pan; cook onion, capsicum and chorizo until golden.
Cook potato in salted water for 10mins or until barely tender. Preheat oven to 150'c.
Add potatoes and paprika to the frying pan and mix well. Sprinkle over feta. Pour eggs over chorizo and vegetables in the frying pan. Cook over a low heat until the base has just set on the bottom.
Bake frittata for 30-45mins until golden and set. Stand for 10mins before cutting into wedges.
Quick and easy. My daughter loves ham, cheese and crackers. I add olives to add that bit of grown up to it. Great for lunchboxes or picnics.
Cut 8 circles out of your choice of lunch meat (use small glass if you don't have a cutter that is that small and cut around it), then cut 8 stars out of your choice of cheese.
Top each cracker with 1 lunch meat circle and 1 cheese star or place in container.
The perfect crispy skinned pork belly. This is actually really simple, but i have a trick.... A stanley knife! It creates the perfect crackling!
Preheat oven to 220'c. Score pork belly with a stanley knife (score through the skin till you hit the meat, and score 1cm slices this creates perfect crackling sizes). Place pork in a large baking tray. Rub all over with oil. Rub salt into scored skin. Roast for 30 minutes or until skin starts to blister. Increase oven to 250'c and Roast for 10 minutes or until skin is blistered and puffed all over. Remove from oven carefully. Rest covered with foil for 10mins.
Tip - For extra crispy cracking in the last 10mins turn oven onto grill as well as oven to crisp it up.


The 175-point requirement may have excluded my continued participation in expert.
I was planning to participate in some scale events this season but the prospect of not being able to qualify for the masters is a deterrent to my participation in regional qualifiers, especially when there is a scheduling conflict with pattern events.
Why would you think the 175 points would be a limiting factor? Just taking some sampling from last year.
In reviewing my 2009 championship scores I probably wouldn't have gotten the required 175 if I hadn't gotten one 90+flight score. The average of the other flight scores was below 80, which would have required a static score above 95, which I don't believe I've ever posted.
Under the old system I could usually qualify by the second or third district qualifier due to the pre-qualification of the top finishers kicking the 30% number of contestants down to my level of competitiveness.
In the past it's been more about participation than proving worthiness.
It can still work out that way... If all pilots who have <175 score have already qualified, then we would be taking the top 33% of those who were under 175. So, really based on the numbers from couple years, there should be more qualifying early.
Other options, compete in advanced? or the new Pro/Am Pro (old open class) where static really does not matter and really a flying event.
Jim like what Mitch says by using how you have done it the past there would no reason that it will not be the same on the new/old way. An example is that you go to a Qualifier especially one that is later in the season and there are 10 pilots in your class. 7 of them have already qualified but the other 3 have not and all did not meet the minimum number or 2 did but 1 didn't all of those 3 would be qualified because it will default back to the 33% for situations like you have described. By how you have done in the past it sounds like you will still be able to qualify under the new rules so don't be disheartened by this you might be surprised how this all works and the benefit for all.
I didn't see that in the rules (page 4) but I'll take your word for it.
I'll probably begin construction of a new airplane next week, an E-powered 1/6 scale Fairchild-24. The drawings are finished and I have enough wood to get started.
I just want to participate. I've always flown Expert scale and I'm too old to switch.
What you have done has brought up a flaw in the guide. What was intended and what was written were not exactly the same. I am submitting a change which will say that at a minimum 33% of a class will qualify. After talking more with Randy and Curtis that is more what was intended. Thanks for the question.. without it this oversite would not have been noticed.
Thanks for taking the time to express your concerns. I hope we can see you at a qualifier this year.
Roly, I plan to attend at least a couple this season even though there are a couple date conflicts.
I flew in most of the Farragut State Park (N-Idaho) qualifiers years ago and hope to be there this year. Its only about an hour drive, too close to pass up.
1. It appears, based upon the rules, that the 33% rule only applies if none of the 10 contestants receives 165 points (from the rules: "If no one in any Qualifier class meets the minimum qualifying points..."). If any one of the 10 contestants receives 165 points, then the 33% rule does not apply, and the five contestants who have not yet qualified each need to receive 165 points to qualify. Is this correct?
Or, was the intent of this rule: "If no one in any Qualifier class, who has not yet otherwise qualified, meets the minimum qualifying points..."? That small change can make a big difference. The way the rule is written, the 33% rule only applies when all of the 10 competitors receive less than 165 points. Was the rule intended to mean that the 33% rule applies when all of the competitors, who have not yet qualified, five in our example, receive less than 165 points?
I have never been to a qualifier event, so I have no feel for how difficult it would be to receive the minimum score, but if it is common that at least one competitor in a class receives the minimum score, then the 33% rule may not be used very often.
2. Assuming that all of the contestants receive less than 165 points and the 33% rule goes into effect, then the number of contestants qualifying would be 33% of the entire 10 contestants (from the rules: "the top 33% of that class"), which would be 3.33 rounded up to four. So the top four of the five contestants who have not yet qualified would qualify, regardless of whether their score meets the 165 point minimum. Is this correct?
Here is the proposed rewrite of that section. Let me what you think.
"At a minimum 33% (round up to next whole number) of the total participants of a class will be qualified. If there are not enough pilots meeting the minimum qualifying points listed above, then use 33% of that class for the next X number of top scoring pilots to fill out the 33%. Example 1) 10 pilots in a class, none are previously qualified, 5 finished with a score above the minimum to qualify. Since, based on 33% 4 would be the minimum qualified, the 5 pilots would full fill the minimum of 4 to qualify. Example 2) 10 pilots in a class, none are previously qualified, 1 finished with a score above the minimum to qualify. The 33% would allow for 4 pilots to qualify. So the 1 pilot who scored above the minimum and the next 3 for a total of 4 qualified pilots. Example 3) 10 pilots in a class, the top 4 pilots are already qualified, then you would still qualify 4 pilots, starting with the 5th place. So 5th-8th place would qualify. We can't cover every combination out there in the guide. If you have any question, please contact Director of Administration."
This paragraph reads as if no minimum score is used or needed.
The top 33% qualify regardless of score, as it was using the 30% rule.
Previously qualified pilots will be included in calculating the qualifying number of pilots. The qualifying number is applied excluding those already qualified in order of placement, highest to lowest, within each class flown.
Oops I guess the minimum score could qualify a competitor if he was the only competitor posting a flight score in his class (less than 33% rounded up).
It seems to make more sense now. If a contestant achieves the stated minimum score for the class, that contestant qualifies, no matter how many other contestants have already qualified, either at that event or any other event. So, achieve the minimum score for the class, and you qualify. But no matter what, at least 33% of the contestants in a class at a qualifier who are not yet qualified will qualify, regardless of their scores or how many of the contestants might be qualified from another event. Is this correct?
Sorry this is so drawn out. Sometimes it's hard to understand rules and it's even harder to write them.
As a first timer, I look forward to participating and most of all, having fun!
Hi Ed, you are correct except one at the end seemed a bit off in your statement. This is how it works at a Qualifier. If all the contestants in a certain class are not pre-qualified then yes minimum score rule takes precedent. But no less than 33% will qualify in that class no matter what there score. Now the part that I am afraid you might be wrong on is this. If lets say 10 contestants are at a Qualifier all in the same class but 5 of them are already qualified from another Qualifier then they count still towards the 33% but it starts at pilot 6. In other words the 33% rule is for the total amount of contestants in the class not just the ones that are not qualified. This is why it is very important to go to other Qualifiers if possible it can help another contestant get to the Champs. But in all reality I really think that the 33% rule is not going to play into that much since I really think that most are going to make it under the new minimum scoring. Would be more maybe at a qualifier later in the year I would guess will just have to see. If I still did not make it clear give me a call easier on the phone I think.
Thanks for the clarification. I see that allows more people to qualify. The statement "But no matter what, at least 33% of the contestants in a class at a qualifier who are not yet qualified will qualify, regardless of their scores or how many of the contestants might be qualified from another event" will always be true then, but the actual number will be greater, since the 33% is based upon the total number of contestants in the class, including those that are already qualified. So, in the example with 10 contestants, of which five have already qualified, the 33% applies to the entire 10, rounded up, which would be four. So, four out of the five contestants will qualify.
So, as a newcomer, being in a class with a lot of contestants who have already qualified is good!
That is correct Ed and you got it.
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A Minimally-biased Philosophy of Life: Computer Architecture perspective
Computer architecture understands the most efficient information-processing systems, agnostic to hardware implementation. To understand humans in computer architecture terms, one must first ask, "What kind of computer is a human being?", before then asking, "How do humans optimally interact?"
The key distinction known by everyone from hardware engineers to business executives is the core distinction between types of operating system: real-time or flow systems vs. batch or sequential systems. The key difference is the ability for computation to respond quickly to updated input. Real-time systems are primed to respond immediately, while batch systems initiate distinct "programs" having distinct beginnings and ends.
For example, humans, robots, and even Wall Street stock-trading servers are all hard-wired with real-time systems having millisecond reaction-times. On a personal computer, the mouse and/or touchscreen use real-time systems, while the response to a click comes from a sequential system.
But it's difficult to do experiments on real-time systems, and much easier to impose start/stop times on experimental subjects. So much of neuroscience and psychology refer to discrete concepts like categories, decisions, and behaviors. Of course humans can and do engage in start/stop activities, but only as an afterthought (literally): the brain's primary computational purpose is high-bandwidth real-time response, without waiting for anything. Brains are built for flow.
When we see ourselves as flow machines, much about us makes sense, including how our bodies vibrate and communicate by vibration. In fact, in a computer-architecture view of people as flow computers, closely-bonded groups of people in close proximty are collective flow-computers, performing the same sorts of computations as individuals, but exchanging much more data and (usually) computing more reliably. Because we evolved to live in kin-groups, our computational heritage is hive-mind.

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I'm excited to announce we are bringing back our Holiday Calligraphy class this November! I'll be teaching my 'Tis the Season class in both November and December in Myrtle Beach. Registration is open below. Class size is limited and both classes sold out last year, so sign up quickly if you're interested! Hope to see you there!
It's almost that time of year again! The cold weather is just around the corner and it's time to surround ourselves with friends, family and fall/winter festivities. The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year. I love how it's filled with so many opportunities to be creative with calligraphy. So I've decided to host a special Christmas calligraphy class to share projects you can easily make or do to celebrate the season!
Because this is a special class we will be experimenting with brush lettering and modern calligraphy styles. We will use a variety of tools, inks, papers and other supplies. Everything you need will be supplied.
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Dr. Leykum to head new VA center of excellence
Luci K. Leykum, M.D.
Luci K. Leykum, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of General and Hospital Medicine, has been named to head a first of its kind center of excellence to improve services to veterans and their caregivers.
The new center will be managed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Health Services Research & Development. It will be named for former Sen. Elizabeth Dole in recognition of her national leadership and advocacy on behalf of the nation's 5.5 million military and veteran caregivers.
Dr. Leykum said that she and the entire team that will be working on the project are "honored to do this work in service of, and in partnership with, our nation's veterans and their caregivers. The fact that the center is named for Elizabeth Dole, a leader and role model in advocacy for veterans and caregivers, makes it even more meaningful."
She added that the center "will conduct a series of pilot projects to test novel approaches to support veterans and caregivers, assess which types of home care services are most effective for different Veterans groups, and promote implementation of successful care models across the VA."
Dr. Leykum said that Sandra Sanchez-Reilly. M.D., professor/clinical in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, will oversee an interprofessional fellowship training program that includes both clinical, educational, and research components.
Additional faculty involved in the work include Drs. Roxana Delgado, Erin Finley, Kimberly Peacock, Lauren Penney and Jackie Pugh in the Division of General and Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Polly Noel in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Dr. Carolyn Pickering in the School of Nursing.
The work of the center will be conducted across four VA medical centers, in San Antonio, Palo Alto, California, Salt Lake City, and Miami.
Dr. Leykum came to San Antonio after completing medical school and residency at the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, where she also served on the faculty. She also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia.
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TRUMP Card: Geopolitical Analysts
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Attack in the Heart of Europe
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The Berlin incident will shape politics across the Continent nudging many states farther to the right.
ORDER FROM CHAOs: FOREIGN POLICY IN A TROUBLED WORLD
A guide for managing the end of the post-Cold War era.
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Obama Says Trump Seeks to Assure Leaders of US-NATO Commitment
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President doubts Trump will undo Iran nuclear deal
Obama to reassure foreign leaders Trump ready to lead
The president to depart for meeting European leaders in Greece and Germany and Asian and Pacific leaders in Peru, where he'll assure foreign leaders the billionaire real-estate developer will be ready to lead the free world by his Jan. 20 inauguration. Describing Trump as more pragmatist than ideologue, Obama, who met with the president-elect at the White House last Thursday, made the case that the international diplomacy turn the U.S. takes might not be as sharp as campaign rhetoric suggested....
DIFFERENT ANALYST ANGLES ON LAST DITCH U.S. ATTEMPT TO SAVE A 'LEADERSHIP' ROLE-- NO LONGER SOLE GLOBAL RULER
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IRAN IS ENJOYING OUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
By Robin Wright 10/19/16 http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/iran-is-enjoying-our-presidentia...
For Tehran, the most important U.S. election prism is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 'nuclear deal'. A weekly business magazine, Tejarat Farda, ran a cover story on Clinton and Trump "Which is worse for the J.C.P.O.A.?"...
The first season of the Netflix "House of Cards," series about demonic American politician Frank Underwood and his duplicitous wife, Claire made its début on Iranian television in time for the finale of U.S. elections...in Farsi dubbed— "Khaneh Poushaly,", "House of Straw"— every night for two weeks.
Iranian television broadcast the October 9th American presidential debate live, in simultaneous translation— in which Donald Trump denied sexually assaulting women and threatened to put Hillary Clinton in prison if elected....As for Trump, hard-line media outlets and reformist ones alike have portrayed him as a buffoon. Cartoons highlighting his orange skin and matching pompadour rival any in the American press.
Fars superimposed Trump's face on the Statue of Liberty; instead of holding a torch, he's thrusting an assault rifle into the air. Skulls lie at his feet...
Mashregh News, a non-governmental news website commented "House of Cards has skillfully shown the deception in the complicated political sphere of liberal American civilization, as well as the treason, power-hungry, promiscuities and crimes behind those ruling in the country."
FARS News link & quote added by theburbankdigest: "In the American version, Kevin Spacey has brought to life Southern politician Francis "Frank" Underwood with such panache that he stands alongside Ian Richardson's upper-class British politician Francis Urquhart as a unique creation, alike in treachery and wit, yet utterly distinctive. It's a superb achievement"
Foad Izadi, a conservative analyst with Tehran University's Faculty of World Studies, told me the authorities allow the broadcasts because "...Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are seen as manipulative, corrupt, and dishonest, engaging in unethical behavior in their personal and political lives."
Iranian newspapers run front-page caricatures of Trump and Clinton to illustrate their accusations against each other. The video of Trump's salacious conversation with "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush made the front pages of nineteen Iranian newspapers. "Is This the End of the Populist?" one headline in Jahan-e Eqtesad asked.
Trump's allegations of U.S. election being rigged particularly resonated across Iranian media... in some ways, revenge. In 2009, the reëlection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was marred by fraud allegation. The Iranian "Green Movement" demonstrations that challenged the theocracy across the country, were sparked and sustained sporadically by social media for over six months. Supreme Leader Khamenei's website charged foreign agents with a "velvet revolution" citing a 2009 Secretary of State Clinton speech at Georgetown University, expressing "solidarity with those inside Iran struggling for democratic change...I've established a special unit inside the State Department to use technology for twenty-first-century statecraft." We can help change agents gain access to and share information through the Internet and mobile phones so they can communicate and organize. With camera phones and Facebook pages, thousands of protesters in Iran broadcast demands for denied rights, creating a record for the world including Iran's leaders, to see." She also said at Georgetown that "We have offered to negotiate directly with the government on nuclear issues."
Wright, a former Washington Post, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, and Sunday Times of London correspondent, has reported from more than a hundred and forty countries. Currently a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, she was also a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as at Yale, Duke, Dartmouth, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wright received the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for international coverage, and the Overseas Press Club Award for the "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative," for her coverage of African wars. The American Academy of Diplomacy named her its journalist of the year for "distinguished reporting and analysis of international affairs." She also won the National Press Club Award for diplomatic reporting and was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant. She is the author of several books, including "The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran," "Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam," and "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East," selected by the New York Times and the Washington Post as one of the most notable books of 2008. Her most recent book,"Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World," was selected as the best book on international affairs by the Overseas Press Club.
The Once and Future Order
What Comes After Hegemony?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-12-12/once-and-future-order By Michael J. Mazarr
Few foreign policy issues have attracted more attention in recent years than the problem of sustaining the U.S.-led liberal international order. After World War II, the United States sponsored institutions, rules, and norms designed to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1930s and promote peace, prosperity, and democracy. The resulting system has served as the bedrock of U.S. national security strategy ever since. In everything from arms control to peacekeeping to trade to human rights, marrying U.S. power and international norms and institutions has achieved significant results. Washington continues to put maintaining the international order at the center of the US global role.
Yet the survival of that order—indeed, of any ordering principles at all—now seems in question. Dissatisfied countries such as China and Russia view its operation as unjust, and people around the world are angry about the economic and social price they've had to pay for globalization.
It's not clear exactly what President-elect Donald Trump's views are on the role of the United States in the world, much less the liberal order, but his administration will confront the most profound foreign policy task that any new administration has faced in 70 years: rethinking the role that the international order should play in U.S. grand strategy. Whatever Trump's own views, the instincts of many in Washington will be to attempt to restore a unified, U.S.-dominated system by confronting the rule breakers and aggressively promoting liberal values. This would be the wrong approach; in trying to hold the old order together, Washington could end up accelerating its dissolution. What the United States must learn to do instead is navigate and lead the more diversified, pluralistic system that is now materializing—one with a bigger role for emerging-market powers and more ways for countries other than the United States to lead than the current order provides.
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The Trump Doctrine: A Work in Progress
Stratfor Intelligence Geopolitical Weekly 11/20/16 https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/trump-doctrine-work-progress
The world is in a "frenzy of study," Henry Kissinger said in a recent interview. At home and abroad, strategists and pundits are trying to piece together a blueprint of American foreign policy under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump from a stream of tweets, some campaign slogans, a few eye-catching Cabinet picks, meetings at Trump Tower, and a pingpong match already underway with Beijing. Highbrow intellectualism can be a handicap in this exercise. Commentators among the Washington establishment have been quick to dismiss Trump's foreign policy moves outright as erratic and self-serving over the past few weeks. In an op-ed entitled "Trump Failed His First Foreign Policy Test," for instance, columnist David Ignatius admonished the president-elect for the "hot mess" his phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen precipitated. Trump makes people uncomfortable. It's what he does best, in fact. But how this quality applies to foreign policy is a question that merits deeper exploration than knee-jerk displays of stricken disbelief. After all, as Kissinger noted in his Dec. 18 interview, "a president has to have some core convictions." So what are Trump's? From what we can discern so far.....
Trump prizes business acumen and a "killer" instinct for managing affairs. He has enough corporate firepower in his Cabinet to fill the next Forbes' list. By nominating ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, he has demonstrated his belief that tough deal-making — identifying sources of leverage and showing a willingness to use them — is the secret to running a country and presiding over the international system. Trump does not fear nationalism; he sees it as the natural and rightful path for every state, the United States included, to pursue in protecting its interests. He also seems to have internalized the idea that the United States is losing its competitiveness and that internationalist foreign policy is to blame. Finally, Trump apparently believes that U.S. foreign policy has become too predictable and overwrought with diplomatic formality....This, at least, is the worldview at a distance. When we come in for a closer look, however, some of the cracks come into clearer view..
Keeping the World on Its Toes
Perhaps the greatest difference between the Obama and Trump foreign policies lies in what may be Trump's biggest virtue: his unpredictability. Obama has been criticized as overly cautious in his foreign policy and thus too much of a known entity for U.S. adversaries. Trump, on the other hand, gives the impression that he is willing to throw caution to the wind and rely on instinct in shaping foreign policy. This matters immensely for U.S. allies and adversaries alike that have to be kept on their toes in developing their long-term strategy while avoiding the unexpected with the world's superpower.
Regardless of who occupies the presidency, the United States' strong geopolitical foundation gives it options. As opposed to more vulnerable countries in less forgiving locales, the United States, buffered as it is by two vast oceans, can debate the merits of isolationism and intervention. George Kennan, a diplomat during the Cold War era, may have captured the immense power of the country's unpredictability best:
"[American democracy is like] one of those prehistoric monsters with a body as long as this room and a brain the size of a pin: He lives there in his comfortable primeval mud and pays little attention to his environment; he is slow to wrath — in fact, you practically have to whack his tail off to make him aware that his interests are being disturbed; but, once he grasps this, he lays about him with such blind determination that he not only destroys his adversary but largely wrecks his native habitat."
Aloofness in international affairs is a geopolitical luxury but it cannot be taken for granted. That may be the basis for the Trump doctrine.
"The Trump Doctrine: A Work in Progress republished with permission of Stratfor."
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What Does A 'Post-American World' Look Like?
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Excerpted from The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria.
BIO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria
...The emerging international system is likely to be quite different from those that have preceded it. One hundred years ago, there was a multipolar order run by a collection of European governments, with constantly shifting alliances, rivalries, miscalculations, and wars. Then came the bipolar duopoly of the Cold War, more stable in many ways, but with the superpowers reacting and overreacting to each other's every move. Since 1991, we have lived under an American imperium, a unique, unipolar world in which the open global economy has expanded and accelerated dramatically. This expansion is now driving the next change in the nature of the international order.
The rise of the rest is at heart an economic phenomenon, but it has consequences for nearly every other sphere of life. At the politico — military level, we remain in a single — superpower world. But in all other dimensions — industrial, financial, educational, social, cultural — the distribution of power is shifting away from American dominance. That does not mean we are entering an anti — American world. But we are moving into a post — American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.
As countries become stronger and richer, we're likely to see more challenges and greater assertiveness from rising nations. In one month in 2008, India and Brazil were willing to frontally defy the United States at the Doha trade talks, Russia attacked and occupied parts of Georgia, and China hosted the most spectacular and expensive Olympic Games in history. Ten years ago, not one of the four would have been powerful or confident enough to act as it did. Even if their growth rates decline, which they surely will, these countries will not quietly relinquish their new roles in the global system....
Liberalism in Retreat Demise of a Dream
By Robin Niblett https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-12-12/liberalism-retreat
The liberal international order has always depended on the idea of progress. Since 1945, Western policymakers have believed that open markets, democracy, and individual human rights would gradually spread across the entire globe. Today, such hopes seem naive.
In Asia, the rise of China threatens to challenge U.S. military and economic hegemony, as Beijing seeks to draw American allies such as the Philippines and Thailand into its political orbit. In the Middle East, the United States and its European allies have failed to guide the region toward a more liberal and peaceful future in the wake of the Arab Spring and have proved powerless to halt the conflict in Syria. Russia's geopolitical influence has reached heights unseen since the Cold War, as the country attempts to roll back liberal advances on its periphery.
But the more important threats to the order are internal. For over 50 years, the European Union seemed to represent the advance guard of a new liberalism in which nations pool sovereignty and cooperate ever more closely But today, as it reels from one crisis to the next, the EU has stopped expanding. After the British vote to leave the bloc last June, it will probably shrink for the first time in its history.
Across the ocean, U.S. commitment to global leadership, which until now has sustained the order through good times and bad, looks weaker than at any point since World War II....president-elect Donald Trump ran on an explicitly "America First" platform, pledged to renegotiate U.S. trade deals, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and called into question U.S. commitments to NATO. Meanwhile...Obama's "rebalance" to Asia has struggled to take off. Beijing wasted no time laying out its own vision for a more integrated Eurasia that may exclude the United States, in which China will play the leading role....
THE FUTURE OF THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER
G. John Ikenberry published by the Council on Foreign Relations
There is no longer any question: wealth and power are moving from the North and the West to the East and the South, and the old order dominated by the United States and Europe is giving way to one increasingly shared with non-Western rising states. But if the great wheel of power is turning, what kind of global political order will emerge in the aftermath? Some anxious observers argue the world will not just look less American -- it will also look less liberal...not only is US preeminence passing, so is the rule-based international order the country has championed since post WW2
...powerful states are beginning to advance their own ideas and agendas for global order, and a weakened United States will find it harder to defend the old system. The hallmarks of liberal internationalism... enshrined in institutions such as the United Nations and norms such as multilateralism -- could give way to a more contested and fragmented system of blocs, spheres of influence, mercantilist networks, and regional rivalries.
The fact today's rising states are mostly large non-Western developing countries gives force to this narrative. The old liberal international order was designed and built in the West. Brazil, China, India, and other fast-emerging states have a different set of cultural, political, and economic experiences, and see the world through their anti-imperial and anticolonial pasts. Still grappling with basic problems of development, they do not share the concerns of the advanced capitalist societies. The recent global economic slowdown also bolstered this narrative of liberal international decline. Beginning in the United States, the crisis tarnished the American model of liberal capitalism and raised new doubts about the ability of the US to act as global leader....
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Is the foundation of the US-led order crumbling?
12/15/16 Center for Strategic and International Studies https://www.csis.org/analysis/foundation-us-led-order-crumbling
by Michael J. Green Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair
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...The traditional postwar foundations of the U.S.-led international order are thus all under some duress, but far from crumbling. That then leads to the new sources of entropy in the international system that were never conceived when the postwar order was being constructed: namely, the global threats that emanate from globalization and nonstate actors. Interestingly, the Bush and Obama administrations both argued in their first National Security Strategy documents that global challenges could unite geopolitical rivals and stabilize international order. For Bush, of course, it was the common front against terrorism, and for Obama it was cooperation on the threat of climate change. Both administrations were correct in part. Great power relations did stabilize somewhat because of the global war on terror, while one of the few positive areas of cooperation in U.S.-China relations today is in the area of climate change. The Bush administration also built greater international cooperation and trust around the international cooperation to meet the avian influenza threat and the Obama administration rallied international support to deal with the Zika virus. At the same time, it is clearly not the case that cooperation on global challenges fundamentally changed geopolitics as the current tensions in U.S.-China relations demonstrate. To date these global challenges have neither weakened nor strengthened the foundations of the U.S. international order in any significant way. On the other hand, there could be catastrophic impact on global order should climate change cause fights for scarce water resources or destabilize whole states—or should animal-to-human transmission of a deadly virus force the closure of international flights and trade in the event of an unprecedented international pandemic. Technology also accelerates the impacts of globalization as nuclear and especially biological weapons become more accessible, while the internet of things and thus the global economy itself becomes more vulnerable to cyberattack.
What is one to think of global order given these new scenarios? It would not be accurate to say that the foundations of the U.S.-led global order are crumbling as a result of globalization and technology. These are still largely hypothetical scenarios after all, despite the reality of the technology that could drive them. Indeed, information technology could accelerate change in other directions as well. 3-D printing could re-concentrate economic competitiveness around the United States, for example, and social media penetration could ultimately tip the scales in favor of freedom even if authoritarian governments have skillfully used the internet to create an impasse for now.
Yet the conclusion for policymakers and strategists should be the same either way. The foundations of the neoliberal order are not crumbling, but they have been shaken from within and without and could be destroyed in the most cataclysmic scenarios resulting from globalization and diffusion of advanced technologies. The answer is to begin reinforcing resilience and strengthening from within. If the core is American capacity and willpower, there is still much to work with, but it will require rebuilding the case for international leadership in the wake of this very damaging election. The next concentric circle is the U.S. network of bilateral and regional alliances, bound by common interests and values. This second ring must be reinforced with greater jointness, interoperability, and common purpose within and among U.S. alliances, including renewed efforts at defense modernization, trade liberalization, and collective global support for democratic rules and norms. The ability to dissuade revisionism by nondemocratic powers will in turn depend on solidarity within what was known as the "West"— but now includes many more democratic partners in the Far East. Ultimately the US--led regional order will depend on sharing power with a rising China and India...But strengthening the core of the international system must come before compromises are made to the rules and norms that make that system function.
Ultimately, it will depend on leadership. When we needed Truman, Adenauer, and Yoshida, we had them. When we needed Reagan, Thatcher, Kohl, and Nakasone, we had them once again. We now need leaders who can harness their citizens to defend and expand freedom and prosperity, yet liberal democracies are serving up a disappointing mix of transactional, populist, and ineffective heads of state. History suggests there is nothing permanent about the nature of leadership, though. New leadership may emerge precisely because liberal democracies have something fundamental their citizens will want them to defend. Making that point is the first task of the next generation of leaders we need.
STRATEGIC VISION Toward a Global Realignment
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Volume 11, Number 6 April 17, 2016 http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignm...
As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture....
The fact is there has never been a truly "dominant" global power until the emergence of America on the world scene. Imperial Great Britain came close to becoming one, but World War I and later World War II not only bankrupted it but also prompted the emergence of rival regional powers. The decisive new global reality was the appearance on the world scene of America as simultaneously the richest and militarily the most powerful player. During the latter part of the 20th century no other power even came close.
That era is now ending. While no state is likely in the near future to match America's economic-financial superiority, new weapons systems could suddenly endow some countries with the means to commit suicide in a joint tit-for-tat embrace with the United States, or even to prevail. Without going into speculative detail, the sudden acquisition by some state of the capacity to render America militarily inferior would spell the end of America's global role. The result would most probably be global chaos. And that is why it behooves the United States to fashion a policy in which at least one of the two potentially threatening states becomes a partner in the quest for regional and then wider global stability, thus in containing the least predictable but potentially the most likely rival to overreach. Currently, the more likely to overreach is Russia, but in the longer run it could be China.
Since the next twenty years may well be the last phase of the more traditional and familiar political alignments with which we have grown comfortable, the response needs to be shaped now. During the rest of this century, humanity will also have to be increasingly preoccupied with survival as such on account of a confluence of environmental challenges. Those challenges can only be addressed responsibly and effectively in a setting of increased international accommodation based on a strategic vision that recognizes the urgent need for a new geopolitical framework.
*The author acknowledges the helpful contribution of his research assistant Paul Wasserman, and the scholarship on the subject of colonial brutality by Adam Hochschild, Richard Pierce, William Polk, and the Watson Institute at Brown University, among others.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor, director, Center for Strategic and International Studies, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter 1977-81... author, most recently, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power.
Brzezinski: foreign policy issues facing next president
Center fir Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Zbigniew Brzezinski
11/7/16 CNN video: https://www.csis.org/people/zbigniew-k-brzezinski
ZB:..."...i think it would very good if the new president makes every effort to engage at the highest levels to achieve at least minimum consensus"
Russia Must Work With, Not Against America in Syria
Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.ft.com/content/c1ec2488-6aa8-11e5-8171-ba1968cf791a
... Russian naval and air presences in Syria are vulnerable, isolated geographically from their homeland. They could be "disarmed" if they persist in provoking the US. But, better still, Russia might be persuaded to act with the US in seeking a wider accommodation to a regional problem that transcends the interests of a single state. Were that to happen, even some limited American-Russian political and military collaboration on the Middle East might prompt a further positive geopolitical development: constructive engagement on the part of China...
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Obama's West Point speech focused largely on terrorism but did not address more complex challenges created by post-hegemonic chao
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig 3 Jun 2014
The 2003 Iraq War unleashed the unraveling of the post-World War I Mideast map
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US/NATO contingency plan in case of collapse of the Ukraine-Russia ceasefire?
US and Russian cooperation in Syria could be beneficial not only for the MidEast but also for US-Sino relations.
The ultimate threat to America is not the various conflicts around the world but our paralyzed political system.
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig Feb 24
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig Apr 18
Emerging redistribution of global political power signals a global realignment. My new article explores US role:
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignm...
The US needs a strategic rethink of its evolving global role given China's rise and Russia's perplexity.
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig May 6
Why is US endangering its interests by creating a situation in Asia where China feels no choice but to wrench up relations with Russia?
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig Jun 15
Lack of a strategic American vision could turn Russo-Sino cooperation from a paper tiger into something much more worrisome
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig Aug 31
Can Trump project a steady tone with historic vision and commitment while also understanding how the world is dramatically changing?
Zbigniew Brzezinski @zbig Dec 7
The American public and the global community need a major speech by Trump on foreign affairs that will set the tone for his administration.


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I Went to See 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' and, Oh, Dear
There's something missing for me at the heart of the new Star Wars movie. Something about evil. (No spoilers, I promise.)
By Chris Matyszczyk, Owner, Howard Raucous LLC@ChrisMatyszczyk
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I flew to the east coast, just so that I could see it three hours earlier.
And if you'll believe that, you'll believe I bought a Nissan Rogue: Rogue One Limited Edition.
Still, I ventured to the first showing of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (for real people, you understand) at a movie theater in south Florida.
I confess I find the obsessive insanity that surrounds the Star Wars franchise a touch perplexing.
Two years ago, I went to the opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and all I witnessed was a bunch of angry characters venting their life-addled spleens.
No, not the audience, the actors.
This time around, I still went with an open mind. My girlfriend adores Star Wars and can quote from its Siths and legends.
To me, it's just a populist movie. But I wanted to like it just to please her. I mean, to surprise her.
So I went to a theater where they serve alcohol. I figured the audience would be more animated.
On the positive side, I confess that The Last Jedi isn't entirely dull.
It's nicely paced and the actors muster gusto. I thought Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico offered a wonderfully sane tour-de-force.
But it's the portrayal of evil that I found increasingly disturbing.
Why can these people never have any fun?
They pull hostile faces. They sneer with superiority. But they never have a beer or a raucous night on the town. They barely go outside.
They spend their time manning spaceships and shooting at people. Professional gamers do this, but when they finally kill everyone off, they scream out loud, have a few beers and a burger and smile at the camera.
Gordon Gekko, now he had fun. I fancy Hannibal Lecter had some good times, too.
I can even imagine Darth Vader knocking back a few vodkas with his buddies in his youth. But Snoke and General Hux likely played bridge and read Lermontov.
When you look at Princess Leia, Poe Dameron and Luke Skywalker, yes, they've had their disturbing times, but you can believe they've had some rollicking ones too. That's why it's easy to pull for them.
But show me one Stormtrooper who's stayed out with his friends till 4 in the morning.
You'll tell me, perhaps, that Snoke and his ilk get their kicks simply out of killing the good guys. Which makes them as attractive and fascinating as tobacco company CEOs.
The finest villains surely have something to be envied and even aspired to.
You have to look at their personalities and lifestyles and think: "Yes, he's a horrible human, but he knows how to throw a party."
Bobby Axelrod on Billions isn't the loveliest of people, but you wouldn't mind having dinner with him to hear his stories, would you?
Please, if you love Star Wars, you'll really enjoy this movie. It has all sorts of nods and winks to the past and positive portents for the future.
But can it be that in a galaxy far, far away -- the one, presumably toward which we're all heading -- the bad guys will be so miserably dull?
And if you tell me that their only fun really does lie in destroying the good guys, what happens when they kill them all?
They'll die of boredom.


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After serving as a two-way player for the New Orleans Pelicans last season, Charles Cooke III joined the Skyforce as an affiliate player for the 2018-19 campaign. Though Cooke III came off the bench in the early portions of the season, he burst onto the scene over the last three months, earning an NBA Call-Up to the Miami HEAT on 3/15/19.
In a season highlighted by numerous career-highs, Cooke III finished the year averaging 14.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. Check out the full recap of Cooke III's season below.
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Simone Biles's decision to withdraw from competition during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, citing her mental health, has sent shockwaves around the world. Considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time, Biles' decision to remove herself from the Games drew criticism from those you'd expect.
At the same time, Biles received an outpouring of love from fans, pundits and fellow athletes, praising the gymnastics powerhouse for setting a positive example by prioritizing her health above all else.
Fascinatingly, Biles' actions have also prompted a reexamination of one of the most — if not the most — iconic Olympic gymnastics moments of all-time: when Jewish gymnast Kerri Strug clinched the gold medal in the 1996 Olympics despite having a serious injury. With the encouragement of her coach, Bela Karolyi, Strug continued to compete after injuring her ankle on her previous vault attempt. She vaulted again, stuck the landing — and then collapsed in pain on the mat.
At just 18 years old, Strug immediately became a national hero. Strug's decision to power through her pain and secure the gold was a HUGE DEAL at the time. Recall, if you will, that in the mid-'90s, the internet was in its infancy, there was no such thing as social media and nobody had ever heard the term "viral video." And yet, as I very clearly remember, everyone was talking about this.
"I cried," I recall my hairdresser telling me the following day, as we discussed the previous night's events. (Like Strug, I, too, was barely an adult in 1996. But while Strug was busy making history that summer, I'm pretty sure 19-year-old me spent those months working at Zingerman's Delicatessen and drinking Honey Brown lager.)
In the aftermath of her feat, Strug made the rounds on talk shows, graced a box of Wheaties and even made an appearance on "Beverly Hills, 90210." And, well, after a while, that was that. I don't recall ever hearing about how her injuries forced her into immediate retirement — Strug never competed in gymnastics again.
Thanks to the magic of YouTube, footage of Strug's vault is available for anyone who wants to watch it. And while her determination remains undeniably powerful, watching Strug compete despite injury feels more like a tragedy than a triumph, especially in the wake of the horrific USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal, and other reports of the abusive relationships of gymnasts and coaches, including Karolyi. (Strug, for what it's worth, has previously pushed back against accusations she was bullied into doing the vault by her coach.)
In a now-viral Facebook post, a dad named Byron Heath said he cheered Strug's decision in 1996, but today has second thoughts: "I wasn't as inspired watching it this time. In fact, I felt a little sick. Maybe being a father and teacher has made me soft, but all I could see was how Kerri Strug looked at her coach, Bela Karolyi, with pleading, terrified eyes, while he shouted back 'You can do it!' over and over again."
Much has changed in the past 25 years (including, possibly, Strug's perception of the event). These days, Strug is a 43-year-old Jewish mom of two kids. (And, hey, I'm a mom of two, too!) She also tweeted in support of Biles's decision to exit the competition. As we continue to reexamine Strug's actions in 1996 through the lens of Biles's in 2021, we thought we'd take a moment to examine a different journey Strug has embarked upon: that of exploring her Jewish identity. Read on for nine Jewish facts to know about Olympic icon Kerri Strug.
1. Strug was raised in a Jewish home.
Strug grew up in Tucson, Arizona; she was raised Jewish by her parents, Melanie Barron and Burt Strug, a cardiovascular surgeon. She has two older siblings, Kevin and Lisa (who clearly must be awesome). "The first to fall in love with gymnastics was Lisa, the oldest," Strug's official bio reads. "She started competing when she was 8 years old, before Kerri was even born. A few years later, Kerri declared that she wanted to be just like her older sister, and she was soon enrolled in a 'Mom and Tots' gymnastics class." Score one for big sisters everywhere!
2. Strug has described her childhood home as "culturally Jewish."
Her family attended services on the High Holidays but she did not have a bat mitzvah. "By the time I was 7, I was winning competitions and I had to make a choice: Go to Hebrew school or go to the gym," Strug told the Jewish Standard in 2006. We'll let you guess which option she chose.
3. She began to explore her Jewish identity after the Olympics.
Strug began to explore her Jewish identity while she was in college. (Strug attended UCLA and later transferred to Stanford University, where she earned a master's in sociology. Clearly she's as smart as she is strong!) She has credited her Conservative Jewish boyfriend at the time with acquainting her with many aspects of Jewish tradition, including celebrating Shabbat and other Jewish holidays.
4. Strug officially opened the 1997 Maccabiah Games.
In 1997, she kicked off the multisport event, known as "the Jewish Olympics." It was her first trip to Israel; in the opening ceremony she carried an Olympic-style torch into the stadium to open the Games. Tragically, that year's Maccabiah was marred by tragedy: A bridge leading to the stadium where the opening ceremony was held collapsed, killing one athlete and injuring 48 others.
5. Strug has come to view her athletic prowess as profoundly Jewish.
She's proud of being Jewish, despite repeated encounters with people who expressed surprise at her Jewish identity. As Strug herself wrote in "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl": "I think about the attributes that helped me reach that podium: perseverance when faced with pain, years of patience and hope in an uncertain future, and a belief and devotion to something greater than myself. It makes it hard for me to believe that I did not look Jewish up there on the podium. In my mind, those are attributes that have defined Jews throughout history." Wow.
6. She had a Jewish wedding!
In 2010, Strug married attorney Robert Fischer in a Jewish ceremony that also incorporated Christian traditions. "They'll have a Kiddush cup and then a unity candle, so it will be special for both of them," wedding planner Anne Bryan told People magazine. Bonus fun fact: The wedding took place at Skyline Country Club in Strug's hometown of Tucson, which happens to be the same place where the parents of Kveller's incredible editorial assistant got married. Our hearts are full!
7. About that "90210" episode…
I'd be doing you all a disservice if I didn't dig a bit deeper into Strug's cameo appearance on a Sept. 18, 1996 episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210" (which, like the gymnastics finals, I also watched during its first airing). In the scene, Strug briefly meets Jewish character David Silver (Brian Austin Green) who, frustrated by class registration at California University, quips: "What do you have to do, win a gold medal or something?" Oddly enough, this was a very Jewish episode of the series, which has Kelly (Jennie Garth) and David take their friend Jimmy, who is Jewish and dying of AIDS, to synagogue to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
8. Strug is a Jewish mom!
She and her husband are the parents of two children: Tyler William Fischer, who was born in 2012, and Alayna Madaleine, who was born in 2014. "It's different how your perspective changes once you have a kid,"she told ESPN shortly after Tyler's birth. "Everybody tells you it's going to happen, but until you have one, you don't get it." These days, the family lives in Washington, D.C.
9. She's an inductee in the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2008, Strug was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. As well she should be! The total number of gymnasts to have received this honor is three: Strug; Mitch Gaylord, the first American gymnast to score a perfect 10, in the 1984 Olympics; and two-time Olympian (and Kveller favorite) Aly Raisman, who was inducted in 2012.


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