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They have a hotshot No. 1 goalie from Finland. A shutdown strongman with one of the league's hardest shots. A no-nonsense coach who insists on structure and accountability. A general manager with a degree from a Beanpot school.
But unlike the plummeting Bruins, the Predators are playing as though they want to make a run into June.
In five of its last six postseason visits, Nashville has lost in the first round. This year, after welcoming ex-Northeast Division players Hal Gill, Andrei Kostitsyn, and Paul Gaustad before the trade deadline, the Predators have no plans for an early dismissal.
Entering last night's game, Nashville was 41-21-8 for 90 points. They are pushing for home-ice advantage in the first round.
"We're much closer,'' said assistant general manager and Springfield native Paul Fenton. "This is not a one-time thing that we're going for here. We know it takes pieces to build the ultimate championship team.''
GM David Poile, a Northeastern alumnus, and coach Barry Trotz, the only men to hold those positions for the franchise, have been in place since the summer of 1997. They built their bedrock in 2003 by drafting defensemen Ryan Suter (No. 7 overall) and Shea Weber (No. 49). A year later, they added their third piece when they grabbed goaltender Pekka Rinne with the 258th pick.
Now, almost nine years after drafting two of the league's best blue liners, Nashville is pushing for a Stanley Cup. Last season, they traded their 2011 first-round pick to Ottawa for Mike Fisher. The former Ottawa alternate captain had term remaining on his deal ($4.2 million annual cap hit through 2013), indicating he was part of Nashville's long-term plan.
Before this year's deadline, they shipped Blake Geoffrion, Robert Slaney, and a 2012 second-round pick to Montreal for Gill, a 2013 second-round pick and a 2013 fifth-rounder to the Canadiens for Kostitsyn, and a first-round pick in 2012 to Buffalo for Gaustad and a fourth-round pick.
In return for that bounty, the Predators now have an experienced shutdown D-man, a top-six wing, and a third-line center who is one of the league's best faceoff men.
Nashville is all in.
"We have a very strong feeling that we've added the right pieces,'' said Fenton, a 1982 Boston University graduate. "The right people can make a difference to give ourselves a chance to win.''
As the Bruins showed last year with Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, and Dennis Seidenberg, a hot goalie and a dam-'em-up defense tandem can lead a team to greatness. The heart of Nashville's identity is Rinne, Weber, and Suter.
To complement their stars, the Predators have maximized their efficiencies in two areas: at the draft table and in Milwaukee, their AHL proving ground.
The Predators have racked up currency in the draft's later rounds: Patric Hornqvist (Mr. Irrelevant in 2005), Martin Erat (No. 191 in 1999), Anders Lindback (No. 207 in 2008), Craig Smith (No. 98 in 2009), and Gabriel Bourque (No. 132 in 2009). Primary development takes place in Milwaukee.
By hitting with cheaper mid- and lower-tier picks, Nashville can pay its stars. Rinne will carry a $7 million annual cap hit starting next season. Weber is earning $7.5 million this season because of a record-setting arbitration case. It's possible the Predators could have enough cash to re-sign Suter, who should ask for double his $3.5 million current annual salary.
With those assets, the Nashville bosses could afford to ship out the future first- and second-round chips that other clubs would be wary of dealing.
Fenton, who leans on fellow ex-Terrier Jeff Kealty, the team's chief amateur scout, said the scouting staff has done "a very good job to build the cupboard. Even though we've given up high-end assets, if you really look at it, we haven't just laid our hat on the first two rounds. In the latter part of the draft, we really get guys.''
Fenton recalled scouting Hornqvist (Sweden) and Rinne (Finland). In each case, Fenton trusted his boots on the ground: European scouts Lucas Bergman and Janne Kekalainen.
Bergman told Fenton to monitor Hornqvist during the World Under-18 Championships prior to his draft year. Hornqvist wasn't a smooth skater, but Bergman liked how he competed.
Rinne was the backup to Niklas Backstrom for Karpat in the Finnish Elite League. Backstrom was more prominent in scouts' viewings and signed with Minnesota as a free agent on July 1, 2006. But Kekalainen liked Rinne's character and work ethic, and Rinne has rocketed past Backstrom as one of the NHL's elite puck-stoppers.
"I trust our people,'' Fenton said. "I trust what they're telling me. But you have to get lucky and be right. Then these things all fall into place.''
Five years ago, the Predators were in a similar situation. They had high-end talent in Paul Kariya, defensive consistency with Kimmo Timonen, and goaltending stability with Tomas Vokoun and Chris Mason. Then they acquired Peter Forsberg from Philadelphia for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent, a 2007 first-round pick, and a 2007 third-rounder.
Nashville believed Forsberg would be a difference-maker, but he was slowed by an ankle injury. He had two goals and two assists in five playoff games, as the Predators lost to San Jose in the first round.
The Predators are in a better position this year. They have more game-breaking talent, with Rinne leading the pack. As the Bruins did last year with the acquisitions of Tomas Kaberle, Rich Peverley (an ex-Predator), and Chris Kelly, Nashville used its assets to address multiple areas.
For all that, they're currently slotted for a first-round showdown against Detroit. Cruel, no?
"Hey, it is what it is,'' Fenton said. "You've got to go through everybody.''
Providence dealing with its own issues
Entering the weekend, the Providence Bruins had 61 points in 63 games, putting them next to last in the AHL's Eastern Conference. With eight teams fighting for the last two playoff spots, Providence will have to put together a push to extend its season.
Providence hasn't been to the postseason since 2009, when Tuukka Rask, Johnny Boychuk, and Brad Marchand were leading the charge.
"You're walking a fine line between developing players and getting them ready, and winning,'' said Bruins assistant GM Don Sweeney. "Winning is the ultimate goal.
"They've had ups and downs as well as a real good stretch. It's been a combination of injuries, and they don't score a lot of goals. But it's a really hard-working group down there. There's no quit in them. That's a lot of the reason we ended up winning up top last year.''
In lockstep with the big boys, the AHL club has been affected by injuries. Goalie Anton Khudobin would have been backing up Tim Thomas after Rask's abdomen/groin strain, but he is unavailable because of an injured wrist. Center Max Sauve is shelved because of a hip injury suffered during his NHL debut last Sunday against Pittsburgh. Forwards Lane MacDermid, Trent Whitfield, Carter Camper, and Josh Hennessy have been promoted and reassigned within the last month.
Of the prospects, MacDermid made the most positive impression during his five-game stint with the parent club. MacDermid filled in well for Daniel Paille, showing that he could be in for a longer stay next season.
"He started out as a kid who was really, really hard on himself all the time,'' Sweeney said. "He realized you can't play the game that way. You have to execute and be in a confident state. He worked hard at that.
"Systems-wise, he's much more acclimated. Down there, he kills penalties and is developing the finer details to his game. He's imposing his will all the time.
"It takes ability to think and react out there. He's done a good job at that. The other parts of his game come in fits and starts. He's not the smoothest of players out there. But he works at it and he's responsible.''
Desharnais arrives - at a bargain price
When queried earlier this season about the league's most underrated player, two Bruins agreed on one name: David Desharnais. Montreal has had little to sing about this season, but Desharnais's development gives them a go-to No. 2 center behind Tomas Plekanec. In 71 games entering last night, the 25-year-old Desharnais had 16 goals and 39 assists while averaging 18:08 of ice time. The Canadiens signed the undrafted Desharnais as a free agent on Nov. 5, 2008. The year before, he ripped up the ECHL as a member of the Cincinnati Cyclones (29-77-106). The 5-foot-7-inch, 177-pound Desharnais is built like a Mini Cooper: squat, stable, low center of gravity. For a club with two contractual millstones in Scott Gomez ($7,357,143 annual cap hit) and Tomas Kaberle ($4.25 million), the Canadiens have a bargain in Desharnais ($850,000). The center will be a restricted free agent after 2012-13.
Not a stay-at-home defenseman
There is no NHL defenseman more dynamic than Erik Karlsson. If you can't see him on the ice, it's because he is flying through the neutral zone and picking through opponents. Karlsson has a coolness that makes it seem as though he is playing with a cigarette dangling from his lips. In 71 games entering last night, Karlsson (a dead ringer for ex-Bruin Vladimir Sobotka) had 71 points. As much as Zdeno Chara changes the game defensively, Karlsson affects outcomes offensively. But for all his brilliance, Karlsson doesn't deserve the Norris Trophy. The critical phrase of the criteria is "greatest all-around ability.'' Where Karlsson falls short is on defense, specifically the penalty kill. Through 70 games, he was averaging just 32 seconds of shorthanded ice time per game. That ranks 206th among league defensemen. Karlsson is more deserving of the Hart Trophy as MVP than the Norris.
Eagles ready to fly
The Rangers are eager to see whether Chris Kreider will say goodbye to The Heights and hit Broadway once Boston College concludes its playoff run. But while Kreider, the 19th overall pick of the 2009 draft, is considered a can't-miss kid, the Hurricanes are hopeful that another Eagle from the same class is thinking about going pro. Defenseman Brian Dumoulin, Carolina's second-round pick from 2009, is ready to move on from college hockey, according to one local scout. The left-shot defenseman from Biddeford, Maine, has 6 goals and 20 assists in 39 games. Dumoulin is one of the 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey's top player. The 6-foot-4-inch, 225-pounder is an offensive-minded defenseman who skates well and makes good decisions with the puck. Carolina already has two good young defensemen in Jamie McBain and Justin Faulk. "He's had an outstanding year,'' said BC coach Jerry York during a recent conference call. "He's had a tremendous career here at BC. This is his third year with us. There's been improvement in all facets of his game. Clearly he is one of the top defensemen in our league. If you're in that category, you're one of the best in the nation. He certainly has an effect on the game, whether it's defensively - making a stop or breaking the puck out of the zone - or on offense.''
Through 70 games, Patrice Bergeron had 836 faceoff wins, most of any player in the league. He is so good on the draw because he targets two objects: the puck and his opponent's stick. When Bergeron leans into the faceoff, he likes to aim for the shaft of the other center's stick, just above the blade. By doing so, he eliminates his opponent's stick from the battle, leaving him free to swipe the puck cleanly. One drawback is that such force weakens Bergeron's stick. Bergeron snaps his sticks regularly because of the trauma inflicted through repeated jousts on the draw.
Loose pucks
Hard to believe that Providence's Josh Hennessy was the 43d overall pick (by San Jose) in the once-in-a-generation 2003 draft. Some of the centers San Jose bypassed were Bergeron, David Backes, and Joe Pavelski. Backes could draw consideration for the Hart, given how St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock leans on him in every situation . . . One interesting observation from the MIT Sloan Sports Conference held earlier this month: Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli's admiration of Detroit's Europe-to-AHL culture. The Red Wings have hit by drafting European players in the lower rounds. But Detroit's management team has insisted on an acclimation period in Grand Rapids, the Wings' AHL affiliate. Valtteri Filppula (Finland), Niklas Kronwall (Sweden), Jiri Hudler (Czech Republic), Jonathan Ericsson(Sweden), Jakub Kindl (Czech Republic), and Gustav Nyquist (Sweden via University of Maine) are current Wings who are Grand Rapids alums. "What they've done is created a culture in the organization where European players come over and spend some time in the minors,'' Chiarelli noted. "That's hard to do. You've got these European players, when you draft them, playing in an elite league in Europe. They're being paid well. The league is really good. They often think it's a step down to come over and play in the American League to learn their craft a little bit over in North America.'' Case in point: Carl Soderberg, the Swedish pivot the Bruins acquired from St. Louis for Hannu Toivonen on July 23, 2007. Soderberg has been wary of a Providence pit stop . . . Certainly looks as if Alex Pietrangelo, the fourth overall pick of the 2008 draft, has leapfrogged over No. 2 selection Drew Doughty. In 71 games entering last night, the smooth-moving St. Louis defenseman had 11 goals and 32 assists while averaging 24:29 of ice time. In 66 games entering last night, the Kings' Doughty had 9 goals and 23 assists while logging 25:02 of action per appearance. Pietrangelo has a year remaining on his entry-level deal . . . The only smiling face around the Bruins dressing room after last Sunday's loss to Pittsburgh? Mark Recchi, saying hello to his former teammates. More proof that nothing beats going out a winner.Fluto Shinzawa can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeFluto; material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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Mohamed Kamara joins Bolton on three-and-a-half-year deal
Bolton have signed midfielder Mohamed Kamara after agreeing a deal with Partizan Belgrade.
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The Sierra Leone international, known as Medo, joins for an undisclosed fee and has signed a three-and-a-half year contract.
The 25-year-old has enjoyed a successful spell with Partizan, winning two league titles and a Serbian Cup and playing in the Champions League.
Before moving to Serbia Medo played for Finnish sides Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK) and Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS), winning one league title and two domestic cups over a four-year period.
Boss Dougie Freedman told the club's website: "I've known about Medo for a while now. Aki Riihilahti, who is a good friend of mine from when we were Crystal Palace, played with him in Finland.
"I've seen a lot of him and never really thought I'd have any chance of working with him. From Finland he went over to Partizan Belgrade and has certainly become a better player over the last three or four years.
"It's the right deal for the club. He has the heart of a lion, the hunger, the desire and the right mind-set - he wants to come here and do well and I look forward to working with him."


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This year the defined summer period for research faculty begins on May 26, 2008 and ends on August 25, 2008. These dates apply for anyone with an academic year obligation.
Several years ago the Vice President for Research simplified the process for requesting summer salary by eliminating the need for prior approval. Requests only require the approval of the relevant Chair and Dean. If you are requesting a full three-month summer salary, please complete the Three-Month Summar Salary Request Form in addition to the Research Foundation Employee Appointment Form or Change Form. For summer salary requests less than three months, submit only the RF Employee Appointment or Change Form.
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Towser isn't that much of a terror, but he can be a turd! He just turned 9 months old and he is still very much a puppy. I love it, though. C:
Towser is one of those dogs determined to find a way to get what they want. He'll jump on counters, tables, etc.
Like I said, though, he isn't always a troublemaker! Here he is comforting Khaith when he was sick and in quarantine from the other cats. He has always had a bond with Khaith... then again, its hard not to love that boy.
Mom always asks "Now are you sure he isn't a dalmation?" lol. When he is wet you can really see his spots!
Gaah, he looks so grown up here. He had just helped me do errands around town so I took him to the park for being a good boy.
If I leave the light on for the hermit crab tank while I sleep I quickly found that I am awaken by this....
Needless to say, the light gets shut off now!
This dog is a nut. First turtles, then crabs, and the other day he was barking at a dishrag left on the kitchen counter. :p
I don't know why, but lately it is really hitting me hard that Ethan is gone. Its been over two months... Still, I was at work the other night (graveyard shift) and I just broke down crying out of nowhere because he popped in my mind. I miss him so so bad. I had such a connection with him... he only liked me and I was very protective of him in return because a lot of people didn't understand him. The odd thing was when I got home my roommate told me that she heard the strangest thing. A couple hours after I left she heard a dog barking that sounded just like Ethan. If you knew Ethan, you knew his bark. It was very distinct. My roommate had lived with him for over a year, so she knew what she was talking about. She said it sounded really close but she couldn't find any dogs outside.
Not long after Ethan passed away I heard the same thing when I was thinking about him. We might be crazy... or there might be a dog around with a similar bark... but I like to think its him reminding us that he's around.
Here are a few photos that I don't think I ever got around to sharing...
Ethan meeting Towser for the first time. The way Ethan is creeping on the poor pup makes me laugh. I miss this dog so much....
But soon they became best bros. Ethan taught him a lot.
This photo is bittersweet. I remember it was the first day I really noticed he wasn't keeping weight on like he should. Its hard to notice things like that when you see him every day...


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August 16, 2011U.S. Deputy Secretary to Address American Students' Global Competitiveness, Importance of Learning from Other Countries
U.S. Deputy Secretary Tony Miller will discuss the importance of understanding key data and learning best practices from the highest-achieving nations at Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) event, "Lessons from the International Experience: Lifting U.S.
August 10, 2011U.S. Department of Education Senior Official to Participate in NASA's Future Forum at University of Maryland, College Park
Michael Lach, special assistant for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education, will moderate a panel discussion at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Future Forum at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11. The forum will take place on the University of Maryland's College Park campus in the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give remarks at the 50th annual Progressive National Baptist Convention tonight, Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 7 p.m. ET at the Washington Marriott Wardman Hotel in D.C.
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Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights, will address the Education Pioneers' 2011 Los Angeles Fellows Showcase Thursday at the Ray Kurtzman Theatre in Los Angeles. Ali will discuss public education as a civil right and the role of education leadership in accelerating change.
August 9, 2011U.S. Education Secretary to Highlight Reform Efforts That Strengthen Schools, Boost Economy During Tennessee Visit
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit Nashville on Wednesday, Aug. 10, to highlight reform efforts being made across the state and the nation that can lead to a stronger education system and better educated workforce.
August 9, 2011Executive Director of White House Hispanic Initiative to Speak at Event Celebrating Launch Of "Club Digital"
Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, will join Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other leaders at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Aug. 10, to celebrate Club Digital, a comprehensive Internet bilingual digital literacy program, which launched Aug. 1 throughout California.
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Washington, DC On Wednesday, August 10, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will release a new report, Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales: Variation and Change in State Standards for Reading and Mathematics 2005-2009. The report uses NAEP as a common yardstick to compare the rigor of state proficiency standards.
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Lynnae Ruttledge, commissioner of the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration, will address the Issues Forum for New Rehabilitation Executives sponsored by the National Rehabilitation Leaders Institute Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
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The U.S. Department of Education's Director of Educational Technology Karen Cator will participate in the plenary session at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) policy conference on Wednesday, August 10 in San Francisco. Cator will discuss strategies for harnessing technology to improve educational attainment.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — As he basked in winning his first Super Bowl title, Russell Wilson thought back to all the times he was overlooked.
Whether it was when Wilson was coming out of high school, when he was told he didn't have a place anymore at North Carolina State or when he was entering the NFL and was deemed too short, all those times of being slighted came rushing back.
"For me I wanted to go against the odds," the former Asheville Tourist second baseman said.
It made it that much sweeter for Wilson to play as well as he did in Seattle's 43-8 win over Denver on Sunday night.
Wilson could've easily had a career in Major League Baseball after being drafted in the fourth round by the Colorado Rockies in the 2010 draft. In 2011, he played in 61 games with the Asheville Tourists and had three home runs, 15 RBIs and a batting average of .228.
Then in June of that year, the former N.C. State standout told the Tourists he had committed to Wisconsin to play football for his senior year in hopes of pursuing a career in the NFL.
That decision paid off in a huge way Sunday night.
Wilson was the undercard all week to the attention being placed on Denver quarterback Peyton Manning. He was even overlooked on his own team with the focus so much on cornerback Richard Sherman and running back Marshawn Lynch.
But Wilson was the one who came out ahead on Sunday. His numbers weren't flashy but he did exactly what Pete Carroll asked. He was efficient. He didn't make mistakes. And he led Seattle to its first title.
"The team was totally focused on getting this done and it played out the way we wanted it to play," Carroll said. "All phases contributed. It was not really even a question in their mind that we wouldn't perform like this. We didn't ask them to do things that we don't always do and they trusted that."
Wilson completed 18 of 25 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns, and ran for another 26 yards. Wilson missed on his first pass of the game, airmailing wide open tight end Zach Miller. But that was the only point where it appeared Wilson was caught up in the experience.
He played with poise and confidence. Wilson had three offensive possessions in the first half and led Seattle to points on all three. Seattle punted only one time in the game and did all that with Marshawn Lynch running for only 39 yards.
The lack of a run game didn't matter with how Wilson played.
"He's a baller. He had two weeks to prepare for these guys," Seattle receiver Golden Tate said. "His surrounding cast is awesome. His offensive line did their job. Marshawn ran the ball. (Robert) Turin ran the ball. Receivers came up big."
Wilson was aggressive throwing downfield after struggling with that aspect of the pass game late in the regular season and in the playoffs. Wilson had four completions of more than 19 yards, includling a 37-yard throw to Doug Baldwin in the first quarter and a 23-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse.
"For everybody who said we were mediocre, not the main dish, we came up big," Tate said. "Three of our four (receivers) scored touchdowns. Eat your words because we balled."
In the immediate aftermath, Wilson thought back to a players' meeting before the season when he presented the question, why couldn't this version of the Seahawks be the first in franchise history to win the Super Bowl? It was never a stated goal, but it fit with Carroll's championship mantra.
"It's emotional to think about all the guys, the great players that have played before us," Wilson said. "That was our thing. We wanted to say, 'Why not us?' We believed that. It was real for us.
"I knew that we were here for a reason."
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When Chad and I headed for the airport this morning, the temp in Chicago hovered around 0, and there was a nasty wind out of the north. Little wind-driven rivulets of spite tore at any exposed flesh. We hopped into the big aluminum tunnel-o-humanity, and flew out to Santa Barbara.
Even the airport is beautiful.
We grabbed some lunch in nearby Goleta at the International Cafe (or Cafe International, depending on which sign you read)…
And then grabbed the cleanest bus I've ever ridden on back to the airport, to await our shuttle.
I was sitting in the shotgun seat of the shuttle, when Chad says to me, "Hey Dean, don't you think you should let Gary Fisher have shotgun?"
I'm all like, "yeah, whatever" as I turn and look…and see Gary Fisher standing there.
The next hour and twenty minutes were pretty awesome. We rode up in the van with Gary, and he told us amazing stories…riding the Coors Classic with the first 7 speed drivetrain in the US…riding the biggest grades in North America with a 53/42 chainring and 13-21 cassette (of course, not geared out…that would be too uncouth). He's an amazingly approachable, interesting gent.
We arrived at Solvang, thoroughly amused by Gary's tales, and were greeted with piles upon piles of carbony goodness.
Including my very own, personal Madone 6 series…
Chad had a Domane, so I had a chance to do a back to back. More on that later.
We changed, and hit the road. They had an option for a 21 mile loop, and a 31 mile loop. Since it was the first day, and we had been up since 2:30am CST, we opted for the 21 mile loop.
Really? Did you believe that? Haven't you been reading long enough to know me better than that? We did the 31 mile loop, and missed a turn making it a 34 mile loop, with a couple thousand feet of climbing.
It's late. I'm tired. Here are some pictures. Overly grandiose discussion of how amazing the riding is here will follow in the next few days.
The climbs are steeper than the pictures show.
I could keep going…but now, I need to sleep. Hasta luego.


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These are the parameters passed directly to a Java applet. Parameters are to applets what command-line arguments are to applications.
These are the parameters passed directly to a Java applet. Parameters are to applets what command-line arguments are to applications. These parameters allow the user to customize the applet's operation. APPLET parameters stored in the PARAM tag actually have little directly to do with HTML. It is the responsibility of the applet to check the parameter values and respond accordingly. We can increase the applet's flexibility, making the applet work in multiple situations without recoding and recompiling it, by defining the parameters.
The two steps of passing parameters to applets are:
Lets see how to Pass Parameters to the Applet
<PARAM NAME=param_name VALUE=param_value>
We use the above syntax to pass the parameters to the applet. In this syntax, param_name and param_value are the values passed to the Java applet.
Retrieving Parameters Within the Applet
These parameter values are retrieved by Java applets using the
getParameter() method. This function is commonly called in the applet's init()
method. The method syntax is the following:
String getParameter(String name);
Don't forget that the parameter names are case-sensitive when passing parameters to applets. Moreover all parameter values are converted to strings.
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ADDED: This quote got me thinking of the poet's lines:
I chant the chant of dilation or pride,
We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
I show that size is only development.
Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.


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From the Oscar-winning production team behind BORN INTO BROTHELS comes WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?, an examination of some of today's most pressing issues:parenting and work, partnering and independence, and economics and art. The film follows four diverse female artists as they navigate the economic, psychological and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. From Hawaii's Big Island to the suburbs of Ohio, from New York City to the deserts of New Mexico, these women - representing a variety of ages - fight to honor both their vision and their families every day. In seeking this balance, the women find that their art often inspires their parenting and, conversely, their families often inspire their art. WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? also documents the stark gender disparities that exist within the larger arts community, including women's under-representation in art galleries, as well as in the worlds of theater, fiction and feature films.
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St. Petroc Monastery (Cascades, Tasmania)
|Saint Petroc Monastery
|Semi-Eremitic Male Monastery
|Hieromonk Michael
|Approx. size
|Cascades, Tasmania, Australia
|Liturgical language(s)
|Music used
|Western Rite, Sarum
|Feastdays celebrated
|Official website
Saint Petroc Monastery is a semi-eremitic monastic community for men in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia located in Cascades, Tasmania. The current superior is Hieromonk Michael, and follows the Sarum practise of the Western Rite. The Monastery consists of two affiliated houses: Saint Petroc House, with a small chapel, at Cascades; and Holyrood House, with a small chapel, at Avondale.
Saint Petroc Monastery was founded in 1992 as an Anglo-Catholic monastery. In 1995 it turned to Orthodoxy and, under instruction, was placed under the direction of Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch. In 1997, the monastery was received into ROCOR, under the omophorion of Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, with the mandate to not only continue using the Sarum practise of the Western Rite, but to do so with the explicit intent of attracting people of Anglo-Celtic ancestry to Orthodoxy through this rite. The Monastery also received permission to create attached monastery missions and parishes. In 1998, the monastery began one of these attached missions in Launceston, named for St Stephen. In the same year, Fr Michael becomes a chaplain at the University of Tasmania.
In 2003, the Saint Colman Prayer Book, compiled by the monastery, is authorised for use in ROCOR. In June of the next year, the Monastery calls a meeting of Western Rite clergy in Australia and New Zealand - which included the priests attached to the monastery and two Antiochian clergy - to discuss the future of Western Rite in Australasia.
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|Orthodoxy in Australia: Monasteries
|Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
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Female: Gorgoepikoos | Holy Cross
|Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
| Male: Holy Transfiguration | Archangel Michael
Proph. Elias | St John the Baptist | Holy Trinity
Female: Our Lady of Kazan | Presentation
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| Male: New Kalenic (Serbian) | St Sava (Serbian)
Female: St Anna (Antiochian) | Nativity Skete (Serbian)
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This paper examines the impact of the firm specific factors on the use of foreign exchange and interest derivative instruments for Malaysian firms. We find that firms' foreign sales, growth options, managerial ownership and size have positive influence on the use of foreign exchange and interest derivatives in Malaysia. In particular, our results seem to suggest that Malaysian firms with higher level of foreign sales and growth opportunities are active users of the foreign currency derivatives, while, firms with higher ratio of quick assets do not use such derivatives, as these firms might use excess liquidity to absorb unpredicted changes in the foreign currency and interest rate risks. Our findings suggest that only a small number of Malaysian listed firms have appropriate understanding of the derivatives instruments to mitigate market risks in the international business environment. Most Malaysian managers seem to be risk averse and might not be aware of the upside of taking position in the derivatives markets.
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This is an interesting concept you have requiring "proof of sincerity and sanity" before being allowed on the Big Board. . . I like it, although I'm not sure I'll be posting enough to qualify as I only comment on the real world and don't speculate.
I say split personality, because I lived in Cincinnati for 15 years. But that is partially complicated by the fact that for 8 of those years I literally commuted between the Gateway City and the Queen City. So I have a pretty good insight into both. I now live in St. Louis full time, and I'll be honest. . . I am a Cardinals fan.. It's hard to live here and not be one.
Because of my Cincinnati connection, I would be hesitant to be disrespectful as I'm sure there are some on this board who are still my good friends.
One other thing about me. . . I'm old. Well, let me put it this way. I began my bizarre life's journey as a sportswriter in Ohio and I wrote about the Reds when they were still at Crosley Field. What does that tell you. LOL


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The nation's spy agency steps into the public eye, releasing documents and airing candid assessments of past operations.
In April 2010, some of the most secretive professionals in government launched their contribution to the Obama administration's transparency campaign. CIA officials released their open government plan on the agency's website, "mindful," as it states, "that continued public support for CIA is very much dependent upon public understanding of its mission and activities."
The multipronged action plan includes proactive declassification of historical documents, slick new publications, public speaking engagements by leaders, daily responses to media and citizen inquiries, symposia in cooperation with academia, stepped-up collaboration with other agencies, and encouragement of online feedback from the public.
It's a far cry from the Cold War days when the Kennedy administration demanded the removal of roadside signs indicating the spy agency's mere presence behind the trees of Langley, Va.
While past CIA directors such as Allen Dulles and William Colby largely avoided the limelight, Leon Panetta in his first two years as agency head has given a series of public speeches on national security priorities including counterterrorism and counter- proliferation. He also has appealed for greater hiring diversity at the CIA in speeches to Hispanic, Asian and Muslim groups.
This is not your father's CIA.
New data suggest that for the average American, some of the Central Intelligence Agency's spookiness is dissipating. In 2010, the CIA averaged 4 million visits a month to its website. The most popular features are World Factbook, a compilation of economic and political data on 267 world entities, a Freedom of Information Act electronic reading room and resource materials for job seekers. The agency attracted tens of thousands of e-mails, faxes, letters and phone calls, and produced thousands of historical publications. Subscriptions to its RSS feeds grew by 10 percent per quarter, topping out at 255,000. The site even includes a kids page.
At today's CIA, the public affairs office routinely staffs booths on the National Mall during Public Service Recognition Week and on McLean Day near its headquarters to maintain good relations with its neighbors. And at the Smithsonian Institution in 2010, CIA historians and retired operatives offered the public the first-ever six-part course on the agency's history-including acknowledgments of which once-mysterious covert actions succeeded and which failed.
Perhaps the trickiest component to manage in the open government effort is the ongoing declassification of documents. It is a task CIA officials take to heart. "Many here believe that we hold these records in trust for the American people, and that when the sensitivity of this information attenuates over time, they should be released so that people can judge for themselves the effectiveness of the agency and their government," says Joe Lambert, director of information management services. "Deciding when a secret is no longer a secret is a very difficult job."
In fact, adds Scott, a CIA colleague who declines to publish his full name and title, "it's the hardest thing in government."
Open Book
The CIA's push for openness comes amid broader transparency trends. The long-held secret of the nation's overall intelligence budget, for example, was revealed for the first time in October 2010. The figure-now at $80.1 billion-was released through prearrangement by Pentagon veteran James Clapper Jr., now director of national intelligence. In the same month, the chief of the CIA's counter-part in the United Kingdom, MI6, gave an unprecedented public speech defending the need for a secret agency in Britain in the face of threatened budget cuts.
The main impetus behind the CIA's initiative is a December 2009 Office of Management and Budget directive on open government that applied to all agencies, even though it gave the CIA some extra "protections," as one administration official puts it. But the new openness at Langley actually has been "going on for at least a decade," Lambert says, citing executive orders mandating declassification during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
Lambert ticks off precise numbers of historical classified documents made public, numbers he is required to report to the Justice Department. Since 1995, his office has processed about 130 million pages while responding to requests under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act and mandatory declassification orders. In fiscal 2009, his team processed 11 million pages. It also received 1,795 FOIA requests and processed 2,042, making up for a backlog. In 2010, the office received 1,942 FOIA requests and processed 1,806.
"The number of requests has grown over time," Lambert says. "The more information we put out, the more requests we get as the public goes through the material." The agency's information management office receives some 4,000 requests for document releases per year, many of them containing multiple inquiries. "If the documents are declassified, then we answer with alacrity," he says. Often, the releases prompt family members of agency employees involved in the historical events to contact the CIA and offer enriching anecdotes.
The proportion of documents that can be released is maximized by the agency's "labor-intensive approach-page by page, line by line," Scott says. That means sensitive words can be redacted but the document as a whole is released, rather than using a pass-fail approach. "That's why we have experienced people looking at each document," he adds, referring to topic specialists from all agency directorates rather than full-time information managers. "They may see things you or I might not see simply going by face value."
Occasionally, there are disagreements over whether a document or section of it should be made public. "It comes down to me to adjudicate those differences," Lambert says. "We're typically able to work it out to all parties' satisfaction."
One offering that's touted in the spy agency's action plan is the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) database, which is available at the National Archives and Records Administration facility in College Park, Md. "Unlike other agencies, we try to make as much material available as possible," Lambert says. "CREST has over 10 million documents and gets good use. We're now seeing it referenced in footnotes in books and articles."
One limitation to CREST, according to Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who is a senior research analyst and director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, is it can be accessed only by visiting the College Park reading room in person. "The agency has refused to put the database online, or even to release a copy of it to someone else who would do so," he says. "This policy does not make sense to me. I think it is a sign of bad faith."
Lambert says the agency recognizes the interest in making CREST available online. "But like a lot of organizations, we have things competing for our resources," he notes, adding that mounting documents on a database often requires the expense of converting different formats. "Our intention over time is to make it available on the Internet," he says.
In the meantime, Scott says, researchers using www.cia.gov can find CREST's metadata, or titles and dates of documents, that are available in College Park.
CIA officials meet twice a year with a group of noted academics from across the country to help decide which historically significant documents might be suitable for release. That is combined with indicators of what the public is most interested in, Lambert says. "We don't want to spend lots of taxpayer money processing documents that are so replete with classified material that not much comes out at the end," he adds.
Critics of the CIA have long suspected the agency might redact information simply because it casts an employee or operation in a bad light. Not so, according to Lambert. "We only remove information that's classified. It's spelled out in the executive orders that we can't classify something because it's embarrassing. When we look at the past, we don't simply cherry-pick the good things, but provide information on both successes and failures," he says. An example, Lambert says, is the recent release of Korean War papers, marking the 60th anniversary of that stalemated conflict. The CIA produced a booklet of documents, including a much-debated national intelligence estimate from 1950, when the agency was only three years old, informing top U.S. policymakers that the Chinese were unlikely to enter the conflict. China did. The 2010 publication was done in consultation with historical review panels and "culled the entirety of the archive," he says.
Publishing With Fanfare
One of the key components of the CIA's openness plan, the "meat and potatoes, where we spend the most time and resources," says Lambert, is the growing catalog of historical publications. Thousands of citizens have requested and received copies of illustrated booklets (with accompanying DVDs) on the CIA's handling of such turning-point events as the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and communist Poland's imposition of martial law in 1981.
The information office works with history staff at the agency's Center for the Study of Intelligence to roll out new releases in high style, often at a presidential library, or an academic conference. Featured at the events are national security luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. "We use historians frequently to add color and flavor to compelling stories," Lambert says. The agency cooperates with the media to reproduce archival images, and in the case of the Korean War release, even broadcast a news conference on C-SPAN.
The CIA also has stepped up outreach to colleges and universities. Scott points to publication of a paperbound set of raw, primary source documents on Soviet interventions in Latin America from the late 1940s to 1980, which the agency assembled with the National Intelligence Council. "A university can use it as a textbook in a course," he says. "A professor could tell students, 'Here are the real documents the government was looking at during that time; what would you do with them?' "
The agency also posts on its website and distributes hard copies of its unclassified flagship journal Studies in Intelligence. It dispatches CIA historians and analysts to academic and military conferences and to serve stints as "officers in residence" on campuses around the country.
One particularly gratifying publishing event, CIA staffers say, was a symposium releasing documents on Air America in 2009 at the University of Texas at Dallas. Known as the world's most shot-at airline, Air America was a team of search-and-rescue plane and helicopter pilots who served covertly alongside U.S. forces in Vietnam and Laos in the late 1960s and early '70s. The CIA event made for a unique reunion of some 500 Air America veterans who had received little public credit for their feats.
Perhaps a sign of CIA confidence in the openness campaign was the January 2010 re-release (in PDF format) of discomfiting internal documents officials call the "family jewels." They comprise some 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from then-Director James Schlesinger that they report activities that might have violated the agency's charter-domestic wiretapping and assassination attempts on Cuban leader Fidel Castro, for example.
More to Come
An ongoing challenge for a secret agency embracing openness is the need to collaborate with other governmental bodies. Some documents contain what are called equities, or material generated by more than one agency, that complicate a decision on whether to release them. "We get great support from other agencies," Lambert says. And in a post-9/11 world, "positive information sharing is necessary to protect the country."
An annual tally of declassification activity by the CIA and others is reported to the president by the Information Security Oversight Office, a part of the National Archives that is guided by the National Security Council. The Defense Department received the most requests from the public for mandatory declassification review in fiscal 2009-93 percent of the governmentwide total-followed by the National Archives and then the CIA. The CIA's rate of declassification per request for the past two years is 31 percent, only half the governmentwide average of 61 percent. But the oversight office gives CIA credit for its advanced capabilities in electronic declassification.
Open government groups are tracking the CIA's moves with a dose of skepticism. Amy Bennett, a program associate at OpenTheGovernment.org, notes her organization's latest federal transparency audit included the CIA's plan among several that are works in progress. "We commend the CIA for producing a plan," she says, "but we felt it did not include enough substance to fairly evaluate it."
She says the CIA plan does a "fine job of making commitments" to release information and engage the public. But it falls short in such areas as identifying who should receive the releases, how best to provide it, and how to "embed openness into the way the agency does business," Bennett says. "The CIA's plan-and results-would be greatly improved by going through a more thorough planning process," she adds.
Aftergood at the Federation of American Scientists is harsher. "In response to the administration's openness initiative, CIA has emphasized the declassification and release of historical documents, not current ones," he says. "Yet even in that limited domain, its response so far is not as impressive as one might hope."
CIA officials decline to respond directly. But they note the new declassification center Obama ordered at the Archives will require CIA's collaboration with other agencies to process hundreds of millions of classified documents by the end of 2013.
"Once information is out, it's very difficult to get it back," says Lambert. "That's one reason we take this job so seriously, and put in time and effort to review the material to ensure it will not damage national security."


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Posted 20 March 2012 - 05:23 PM
2011, CR-Z ( too bad not a BRZ) CVT 798miles.
My car arrived today.
Here it is. in all it's glory with 798 miles on the odo.
Front and Rear hit, both light.
Passenger airbag blown, drivers side ok
both seatbelts locked
driver fender slightly tweeked
radiator is not leaking, but warped in the middle
driver headlight broken
hood is not useable
front bumper is reusable
grille is busted but can be used that way
rear bumper has good damage, so that will likely need replaced sometime
got hit on back too.....
I have already pulled the hood off, and removed the upper radiator support.
Also found the window sticker in the glovebox, and the locking lug nut key has been found. Missing one alloy/tire, but got one coming from Ebay already.
From what I can tell it was a deer hit, there are scuff marks on roof passenger side that have a trail of scuffing to the top of rear hatch (I do know Kansas City has deer). From what i can guess, previous owner hit a deer, slammed the brakes on, then got hit in the back end. I am going to try to contact previous owner, for 1 to see if he has another key since i just got 1 key.
wish me luck....
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bumper totally useable as is, only a few imperfections
took out the core support.
radiator is warped some, but still holds no leaks.
Posted 21 March 2012 - 10:15 PM
nothing new till that arrives.
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This is a good commuter car, even the guy who delivered it, asked me to email him pics when it is done, he is looking for a car for his daughter, and he liked this Z. I said i might just keep it....guess when my main parts get here this next week, then the rebuilt inspection followed by title so i can drive it, will have to see...
i put 3 miles on it today just hitting the streets in town. ODO now shows 802miles.
Owning a Honda is a lot different than most other cars, it is "gas it up and change oil regularly, for 250k miles, with occasional plugs and Tbelt" THAT IS IT, not other expenses when you choose the best models. Not going to knock any, other brand but overall cost for repairs is nothing on a good model Honda.
I have owned CRX since 1993. I remember back then, same crappy overall reviews and consumer desire. Nobody wants a 2 seater. True. But the reviews on the CRX are similar to the CR-Z. Plus the mpg's is vastly underrated on both those cars. Cause the test drives are not for 50miles on the highway at a time. I want a car i can go anywhere and back and get 45mpg all day long and not be in a car you see on every single block of any city. This is that car. My first complaint is huge blindspot to side backs...The CRX did not have any blindspot.
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I briefly owned a 91 Prelude Si 5psd, car was a joke to work on and other things.
Owned a 96Acura TL, was pretty nice but had some bugs and didn't like the ligthing ,compared to the 91 CRX and Civic
Also, owned a 94Civic VX hatch. Car was not near the car of the 91 CRX Si or Civic Si, for pep, handling, comfort, mpg etc....
I will need some time in the CR-Z to find what it is like..........If it can pull slightly better mpg than the 2 91's i have now, then i will consider my options on keeping it. low mileage is nice for a while.
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The radiator had some seeping on the top tank, and today i went to the local radiator repair person, and he re-crimped and checked the top tank. $21.40 repair.
I have until Tuesday to get the front bumper and headlight out as requested for it to go on the frame machine...
My huge parts order with Majestic Honda got notice today they canceled out the hood order part due to oversize.....
So today i called a dealer 60 miles away, and they could do a new hood for 279, which is not as good as Majestics price, but the will deliver to me free.... I guess tomorrow the NEW Honda hood arrives, and the other stuff from Majestic early in the week.
Might have the body work done by midweek next week, except rear bumper stuff.
coming along nicely. I was never even thinking it would be a few weeks in repair cause i thought it might take all summer to get the parts and the timeslot for someone to pull the frame......cheers.
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So the kid was chillin' at her grandma's house, and Ilene and I got out for a rare bite to eat/moment alone. We high-tailed it to Follow Your Heart for a slammin' breakfast, and at the table next to us, a 50-ish couple was reading the Sunday Daily News. It's damn nice to see people reading the paper.
There, I said it, I blogged it, I'm outta here.


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The Hilton Miami Airport was the site for the final event of Barry University's annual Founders' Week celebration on Saturday. A weeklong festivity, Founders' Week commemorates Barry's history, mission, Catholic Identity, and Dominican heritage.
For one week each November, the university community remembers its founders: Mother Mary Gerald Barry, Bishop Patrick Barry, Monsignor William Barry, John Thompson, and the Adrian Dominican Sisters for whom Barry is a sponsored institution. Through the Founders' Week celebration, members of the Barry community seek to deepen their personal and collective understanding of how they live the university's mission and core commitments.
The celebration began on Saturday, Nov. 9 with the kick-off event, the Gobble Wobble 5K Run/Walk. The Gobble Wobble is a student-driven event designed and carried out by students in the Sport & Exercise Sciences Department at Barry. Held annually since 2007, all proceeds from the race are donated to FLIPANY (Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth), a local non-profit organization which promotes the consumption of nutritious foods and physical activity to youth. More than 130 people participated in the race which raised over $2,500. This year's top finishers were Bryan Sharkey (17:08) in the men's category and student Akemi Maehama (22:39) in the women's division.
On Monday, the community honored the vision and legacy of the university's founders with the Founders' Week Mass. As the event fell on Veterans Day, the university took a special opportunity to honor America's military veterans as well.
Tuesday brought a pair of events in the Distinguished Lecture and the season home opener for the men's basketball team. This year's Distinguished Lecturer was Corrine Sanders, OP, EdD. Her lecture, entitled "We Go, We Travel Constantly: Our Life in Mission," explored the call for mission-driven leadership while upholding the legacy of the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
Bucky's Crew was in full force for the men's basketball team as the Bucs defeated crosstown rival Florida Memorial 82-51 in front of a packed house.
On Wednesday the Barry community gathered in an effort to beautify the campus during Plant the Campus Red. During the event, faculty, staff, and students planted sustainable foliage and orchids throughout campus, in the spirit of service.
The Chapel Mall was standing room only on Thursday as the university celebrated Community Fest. A festive afternoon of performances, games, and team competitions, this year's theme was superheroes. The team competition included musical chairs, the bed races, an obstacle course, mural design, and a costume competition. The student division was won by the team from Lambda Theta Phi fraternity while the staff competition was won by the IA-Avengers from the Division of Institutional Advancement.
On Friday, Barry held the Interfaith Prayer Service and Core Commitments Luncheon. This year's luncheon highlighted presentations from the School of Human Performance and Leisure Sciences. The presenters included Ms. Sharon Kegeles, Dr. Tal Amasay, Andy Havens, Lorean Mapp, Alison Fitzgerald, and student David Bone
The celebration wrapped up on Saturday, Nov. 16 with the Distinguished Alumni Awards. This year, Barry honored three alumni with its Distinguished Alumni Award; Erbi Blanco-True, Senior Vice President and Director of Community Development at Greater Florida Bank; Lourdes Cowgill, President Emerita of Pine Crest School; and Dr. Michael Vaardahl, owner of the Foot & Ankle Center of Northern Colorado. LaCriscia Fowlkes, Program Director at PACE Center for Girls in Miami, and The Honorable Adam McGinnis, Orange County Judge for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, received the 2013 Rising Star Award.


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"Veterans in south Louisiana have waited too long for a decision to be made on the future of healthcare delivery in this area," House Veterans' Affairs Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Michaud, D-Maine, said in written testimony for a Monday field hearing in New Orleans.
The session was held to address the future of VA health care in the region by convening local government leaders and university officials, veterans and representatives from regional healthcare systems.
Healthcare delivery "remains in flux as leaders struggle to come to some agreement on both the best location and the best partnerships" to forge for providing care to veterans and other citizens, said full House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner, D-Calif.
Before Katrina, the New Orleans VA medical center had a partnership with New Orleans' Louisiana State University, the Tulane University Schools of Medicine and many allied health profession programs. Congress has appropriated $625 million, through two emergency supplemental appropriations, to move ahead on building a new facility.
Frederick Cerise, secretary of the Louisiana Health and Hospitals Department, urged the committee to support a model that would leverage the success of VA's esteemed health information technology system by combining three New Orleans inpatient facilities that existed before Katrina into a single LSU-VA inpatient facility, with a dispersed network of clinics.
The goal of Louisiana's healthcare redesign is to provide care through partnerships that take advantage of health IT and improve health outcomes. "This is akin to the VA vision," Cerise said.
He noted that in the aftermath of Katrina, VA facilities nationwide were able to access patient information for evacuees because of the department's health IT system.
"Investments in HIT and the recently established Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum will aid in creating system-ness and ensuring that improvements in quality occur," Cerise testified.
He cited support for keeping the VA hospital downtown from the Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes; the Downtown Development District of New Orleans; and the state legislature.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said the city also supports rebuilding the VA hospital downtown.
But Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Ochsner Health Systems, whose Jefferson Parish-based medical center remained open during and after Katrina, recommended that the VA locate the new medical facility outside downtown New Orleans, near Ochsner's center.
In commissioning an independent study of 600 veterans in 18 south Louisiana parishes, "overwhelmingly, 76 percent of veterans indicated they prefer a suburban Jefferson Parish location to one in downtown New Orleans," he stated.
Ochsner's proposal encourages the VA to occupy a 28-acre site owned by Ochsner that has easy access to major highways. "It is above sea level and not located in a flood plain," Quinlan testified. And, "electronic connectivity is possible with Ochsner's complete ambulatory electronic medical record system."


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DETROIT (AP) Ś A published report says DetroitÆs property tax system is riddled with errors and waste.
The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/11ZiPqX ) Friday that a recent audit found tax bills are frequently sent to the wrong address, and homeowner exemptions that lower bills are granted without proof of eligibility.
Police also are investigating the disappearance of nearly $310,000 over five years from the assessment division.
Chief Assessor Linda Bade blames problems on budget cuts that have shrunk her staff to 36 from 90 in the late 1990s. She says workers do their best under tough conditions. The city agreed in December to pay $2.3 million on consultants to overhaul the tax system.
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MAPLE PARK – Maple Park has scheduled a public hearing on the proposed changing of a street name. Officials will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the civic center, 302 Willow St.
According to a draft ordinance, officials seek to change the name of a street from Willow Lane to Ashton Drive and assign street addresses on East Ashton Drive and East DeKalb Drive.
Clerk Liz Peerboom said the street is no more than 50 feet long and has no houses.
"It is really an extension of Ashton Drive," Peerboom said. "It was named Willow Lane, but we already have a Willow Street in Maple Park. It is really a small section. And we will do other address assignments and do it all at one time."
The address assignment changes were for a subdivision that never got built and never officially were recorded with the county, Peerboom said.
The subdivision, Squires Crossing, has one house. Only a handful of property owners were notified, mostly banks and a developer, she said.
"This is basically a housekeeping measure to get things in there properly," Peerboom said.
The draft ordinance is available for viewing in the village office from 9 a.m. to noon through Friday and from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Feb. 7.
Peerboom said a copy of the draft ordinance should be available online by the end of the week on the village's website, www.villageofmaplepark.com.


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This is exactly what US Born Again Christians claim will be the mark of the beast and was the central theme to the Christian horror flick "Thief in the Night". To quote Revelation 13:16-18:
"Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name."
Of course the Bible fails to mention that you can wait for up to a year to get an Adsense account from the beast, but we expect that was in the sequel, which we never got. The first prototypes were stuck on using an plaster-style patches. More recent prototypes are applied directly to the skin using a rubber stamp.
It can then be covered with spray-on bandage to make it more durable and waterproof enough to wash. The MC10 Biostamp is said to last up to two weeks before it starts to come loose, but by then the devil will have caught hold of your soul and a voice will cry out "shoot." (An appropriate Genesis reference).
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I hear Manny Delcarmen a 21 yr old righty is the other player.
At A ball he was 7-8 with a 4.10 era.
Worked 136 innings, 124 hits walked 56 fanned 136. Thows in 92-93 range occasionaly 95-96 mph.
I hear Manny Delcarmen a 21 yr old righty is the other player.
At A ball he was 7-8 with a 4.10 era.
Worked 136 innings, 124 hits walked 56 fanned 136. Thows in 92-93 range occasionaly 95-96 mph.
The worse part about this trade is we got prospects that are still atleast a couple years away from being in the majors.
We needed more talent in the AA level.
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I think we need to relax on the Blanco talk for now. No credible agency has named the ptbnl.
I'm hoping for a Reitsma/Curtice type fleecing. At least get a MI and a power arm from A ball.
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Wow.....I hate being late to these posts. I am going to say my peace even if it was already said by someone else. This is a salary dump and puts us closer to either signing someone or keeping the beloved Casey. Of any of the guys that we can move Walker is the best choice followed by the catcher situation. As for SS, yes, Larkin will only play SS, to bad he does not have the foresight to move to another position like Ripken. As for other guys playing 2nd or SS it should not be a real problem. Gookie and become like Pokey and move, Larson can do it but I think that Larson is better at 3rd and boone at SS and 2nd. Plus ther is Neifi Perez still floating around. But we have the tools to fill the spot either on the 40 man, a scrub free agent or in the minors. Without Todd the team still has plenty og Pop. As for the Red Soxs, this is subtraction by addition.
Thank you, let's hold off judging the trade, you know, maybe untilOriginally posted by TRF
I think we need to relax on the Blanco talk for now. No credible agency has named the ptbnl.
I'm hoping for a Reitsma/Curtice type fleecing. At least get a MI and a power arm from A ball.
1. WE know the players involved
2. We know the players involved
3. We know the players involved
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And above.We needed more talent in the AA level.
I don't mind if there's an A-ball throw-in (and Delcarmen would be an intriguing one), but unless you're getting a bonafide top-shelf prospect then A-ball guys are too vaporous a return.
Supposedly the Sox are holding a press conference within the hour. Let's see if they mention the minor leaguers.
would the Reds possibly give a shot to Ryan Freel, recently picked up from the Devil Rays system? I would think that they would give Larson, Gookie, or others a shot there before this guy, but I don't know much about him or his past. Rotoworld has him behind Walker on the Reds Depth chart, which doesn't really mean anything, but just wanted to hear thoughts on him.
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Reds signed infielder Ryan Freel to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. Freel's not a bad player, but the fact that he doesn't play shortstop may keep him from having a career as a utilityman. He hit .261 and stole 37 bases while splitting time between second base and the outfielder for Tampa Bay's Triple-A affiliate last season.
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The Reds have no room to protect more players (well, they could protect one) on the 40-man roster, so I don't think they will be named yet. OTOH, the BoSox only have 28 players on their 40-man roster, so if the PTBNLs don't need protectin', they ain't worth havin'.
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So is this the sign of flood gates to open in Redsland???? Who's next???? I wouldn't doubt even if they traded Jr. for 5 5-tool minor leaguers.
Thanks Uncle Bananas!!!!
My preditcion for the next player traded; Jason LaRue. Through arbitration he will make more than Stinnett next season, and the Reds have enough depth at catcher to absorb the loss.
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From the Reds web site:
Reds deal Walker to Red Sox
Cincinnati gets two minor league players to be named
By Chris Haft / MLB.com
CINCINNATI -- Even before their full delegations arrived at baseball's Winter Meetings in Nashville, the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox completed a trade Thursday, with Cincinnati sending second baseman Todd Walker to Boston for a pair of minor-leaguers to be named later.
Walker likely will be penciled in as Boston's starting second baseman. The Red Sox used five players at that spot in 2002: Rey Sanchez, Freddy Sanchez, Lou Merloni, Carlos Baerga and Bryant Nelson. Rey Sanchez, who received most of the playing time while starting 97 games, is a free agent.
Walker had one of his best all-around seasons this year, batting .299 with 11 home runs and 64 RBIs in 155 games for Cincinnati. But the Reds' need to trim payroll forced them to shop him around. Walker, 29, is due to earn $3.4 million next year with $450,000 in incentive bonuses and $475,000 in award bonuses.
"The Reds want to thank Todd for all of his contributions, both on and off the field," Cincinnati general manager Jim Bowden said in a statement. "He represented the organization in a first-class manner, played the game hard every day, and he will be missed."
Cincinnati acquired Walker and outfielder Robin Jennings from Colorado on July 19, 2001, for outfielder Alex Ochoa.
The identities of the players to be named probably won't be announced until after Monday's Rule 5 draft.
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I'll wait to hear the prospects involved. I believe that Walker had good trade value. The 2ndbaseman for the Reds in 2003 will be someone who's not now with the team. Maybe Sanchez. Maybe Belliard. Just because everyone knew that the Reds wanted to move a salary doesn't hamper Bowden much. He had many choices to move, so no one could really give him a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum. Walker may have had a career year in 2002, so Bowden is certainly moving him at the right time. I sure hope he got his replacement at the same time.
Who cares about the prospects, it is the salary that counts. We have 3 million dollars we can use now. Look at the Rotoworl d assessment. Walker was not going to take us to the promised land and we were paying out the nose for a performance that we can cheaper from some place else. Marion Duncan didn't set the NL on fire in 90 and we somehow won the world series. For teams like the Reds it is about making wise moves. Teams like the Red Soxs and the Cubs throw around money an do not build a franchise. Walker is a waste to them because they do not need him. As for the PTNL, who cares where they are starting at or who they are, but the Reds need to take a chance on guys, you build a farm system and if only one or two guys come out, you made a good deal. These guys may not pan out, but this is talent and we can develop and if it flops it flops, but 1 out of ten is what the Reds need. This is fine trade and not a white flag, we will not miss Walker and once hte season starts we will not even know this occured.
If the Reds get Freddie Sanchez out of this deal for Todd Walker, it is a major coup. The Reds get a young player to either play shortstop or second base while clearing 3 million off the payroll for next season and possibly create more breathing room to acquire a frontline pitcher.
At least Junior and Casey are still Reds at this point.
I think this is the first of several deals to come.
Originally posted by guernsey
The identities of the players to be named probably won't be announced until after Monday's Rule 5 draft.
Uuuuggghhh.....wait till Monday????
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Like its last incarnation, the latest Q&A from WoW developers over Twitter was full of some great information, both about the current expansion and what's coming next with Cataclysm. Even better, you didn't even need to be on Twitter to read it, for those still hemming and hawing over social networking being a big fad they don't get.
We found out a few choice tidbits about Cataclysm, including what's going on with the Blasted Lands revamp, the possibility of more old-world heroics like Shadowfang Keep and Deadmines, and the state of the Plaguelands after Arthas' defeat. How Tol Barad will (and won't) be like Wintergrasp also came up.
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Remember the first time you heard about the DOM? Do you still get this shiver running down your back at the mere mention of it?
You may call it a revolution, especially compared to the former pseudo-standard interfaces. However, as important as the DOM is, there are utilities missing in the standard implementation that we would like to have.
For example -- for many years the only way to insert dynamic content into your documents was to use the document's
I'm going to shy away from using proprietary extensions to solve this problem. Instead, I'll create a simple parser and talk about the process of building a DOM tree from a plain string. In case you're totally new to the DOM, you may want to read the last Essential JavaScript column, Document Mathematics: Count Your Words, for a brief introduction. Also, before we start, I want to spend a few minutes explaining why I think taking the standards approach is so important.
Standards: to be or not to be?
I have a philosophical question: Is it best to enhance your pages with a tempting proprietary extension (remember those weird filters in IE) or stick with the standards? On one hand, proprietary extensions are convenient and do offer handy functionality for those in your audience who have the right configuration to use them. On the other hand, standards open your pages to the greatest possible audience, but with the drawback of possibly limited functionality and probably more work.
On one level, this article is much more than pure philosophy. You probably wouldn't even be able to read this article without many of the critical standards that serve as the foundation for the Web. Viewed from this perspective, it's hard to argue against standards-compliant authoring.
Astonishingly enough, however, many developers have wandered away from standards-compliant authoring. Possibly they've been tempted by the ease of using proprietary extensions that save time and effort. Yet by using proprietary extensions, those developers are sending all the efforts of those guys creating standardized layers of communication and transport to the
From my point of view, the solution is simple: Just stick to the standards and use them whenever possible. Given this scenario, you're ready for new browsers or other applications that support the standards you're already using.
OK, that's enough of that for now -- let's get technical again!
Creating elements
To interact with the DOM, you have to think in terms of nodes and elements. A string containing markup can't be inserted into the tree without transforming it. Even a pure plain-text string can't be inserted into the tree without creating a text node first. To create a text node you use a method of the document object:
Now you have a text node object, which inherits from the
Creating an HTML element is just as easy:
When working with HTML documents, the type of the returned object depends on the given element name. The DOM Level 1 HTML defines special objects for all HTML elements. These objects were designed to address two requirements: backwards compatibility to older, non-standard DOM implementations and providing an easier view to HTML elements, as you can access the properties directly on the objects rather than dealing with special attribute nodes.