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In the wake of Vanguard's enterprise 2.0 effort, deep cultural changes
Vanguard's Abha Kumar realized an ambitious enterprise 2.0 project in three years by tapping into a corporate blueprint predicated on high-performing employees.
When The Vanguard Group Inc.'s Abha Kumar needs to talk to a co-worker, she's inclined to pick up the phone. No cameras, please. For text communications, email is her preferred modality. So much for cutting-edge enterprise 2.0 tools.
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"I'm old-fashioned that way," says Kumar, the head of corporate systems integration, as well as a principal in the IT division at the Valley Forge, Pa.-based mutual fund investment firm. "But our head of international will only have a video chat with me because he wants to see my expression."
The confession is an inside joke. For the past three years Kumar, who joined the firm in 2007, has spearheaded the technology component of an ambitious enterprise 2.0 project that is putting Vanguard in the, yes, vanguard of e-collaboration and e-communications -- at least for a highly regulated business like financial services. Her tool chest covers the gamut from video conferencing and secure global video to webinars, e-meetings and collaboration sites -- and increasingly, mobile communications from any device.
Kumar has the numbers to show for it. Since the enterprise 2.0 project became technology-enabled in 2009, Vanguard's employees -- or crew members, as they are called -- in 2010 alone, chalked up 95,000 e-meetings, participated in 9,000 webinars and collaborated on 1,200 active Microsoft SharePoint sites. "We like to interact with each other a lot, and we like to have lots of meetings. It's just what we do," she says.
Minding the business of enterprise 2.0
Policy and governance turn out to be a big part of IT's job in The Vanguard Group Inc.'s enterprise 2.0 project, according to Abha Kumar, the mutual fund investment firm's head of corporate systems integration. Every new technology that's introduced for the project is analyzed for its impact on company policy.
A steering committee of high-level representatives from the legal, HR and security departments and the firm's business units makes the approvals, allowing IT "to make a whole lot of progress fast," Kumar says. These three IT practices have helped speed the adoption and success of the enterprise 2.0 tools:
Piloting: IT rarely rolls out the technology to everybody. Kumar looks to groups that are asking for it, and relies on them to talk it up. "We spend a lot of time talking about how we are going to roll out various technologies: who to roll it out to first, and how do we assure we have buy-in," she says.
Monitoring: Constantly. Vanguard's 1,200 SharePoint sites, for example, are watched closely and shut down when there is no activity. "The last thing you want is to have something out there that nobody is using," Kumar says. The other factor is cost: "My whole disaster recovery is around storing everything."
Improving the technology: On the mobility front (Vanguard supports company-owned and personal devices), IT found a security risk related to email attachments. "It took us a number of months working with the vendor [Good Technology Inc.] to get them to a place where we felt comfortable," Kumar said. -- L.T.
Vanguard now has 130 Tandberg video-conference rooms at its domestic campuses and about 11 internationally; some have the high-end digital equipment that allows participants to see people's facial expressions. The penchant for face-to-face meetings at Vanguard, in fact, prompted Kumar to provide Movi video conferencing on company-provided laptops to 720 crew members currently. They video conference from hotel rooms, airports or their homes -- and not just domestically, she said. The 12-hour-plus time difference between Vanguard's U.S. and Australian operations, for example, means that employees overlap minimally during their respective office hours.
"By providing these Movi devices, we increase interaction. The business benefits a whole lot more because there is more interaction time and we interact in the way we like to, which is personally," Kumar said.
Any enterprise 2.0 tool, of course, must operate within the confines of the security, privacy and regulatory environment to which Vanguard is subject. That's always a governance and technical challenge, Kumar said (see sidebar, right). Commercial versions of instant messaging, for example, were off the table because of requirements that all messages be stored.
But IT must push on, Kumar said. Crew Chat -- a compliance-ready version -- is being piloted to groups that want to connect instantly for a quick chat. "If we don't do that, we will not be a competitive place to work," she said.
Enterprise 2.0 ROI, anyone?
The point is well-taken, according to Craig Roth, an analyst with Gartner Inc.'s Burton Group division and author of the recent report, "Building a Business Case for Collaboration Initiatives." As the business environment becomes more competitive, more global, and more cost-sensitive and responsive, the need for technologies that support collaboration is increasing.
But even knowing that, many companies struggle with determining the value of collaboration initiatives because it is hard to know all the ways they can be used, they have no fixed time frames and they generally are indirect contributors to success, Roth said. The challenge for IT leaders is to figure out which technology initiatives will provide the most benefit, he said.
Vanguard's enterprise 2.0 project has suffered setbacks related to the technology, the instant-messaging piece being just one example, Kumar said. Project leaders have moved beyond proving the business case. "The cost savings in travel alone just jumps out at you," she said. But the Vanguard enterprise 2.0 initiative, she added, is "so much more" than about cost savings, and greater than the impressive sum of those project numbers she recites by heart.
Today, attracting a high-performing employee base means providing the flexible and collaborative environments young workers experience in their personal lives and expect from workplaces, Kumar said. The enterprise 2.0 project's three "sleeves" -- communicating, collaboration and mobility -- help build that environment.
Project roadmap
- Abha Kumar and other key players at The Vanguard Group Inc. conceptualize plans for the company's enterprise 2.0 project.
- The group secures a small budget "experiment."
- Forms steering committee.
- Establishes three "sleeves" of the project: Communication, collaboration and mobility.
- Deploy enterprise 2.0 tools, video conferencing and SharePoint at midyear.
- Enterprise 2.0 tools are widely adopted: 95,000 e-meetings in 2010, 1,200 active SharePoint sites and other blogs are launched.
- Improving video conferencing, adding SharePoint sites, video updates in business units.
- Extending mobility with "bring your own device" program. -- L.T.
For starters, the ability to connect employees virtually makes perfect sense for a company like Vanguard, Kumar said. Unlike some competitors, the firm does not have storefront shops that clients visit. Advice and access are virtual, by phone or online, in keeping with the firm's promise to keep overhead low. Its internal experiments with social media and other enterprise 2.0 tools over the past three years serve as a lab for expanding virtual client services.
The enterprise 2.0 project also taps into the firm's corporate blueprint for success, which starts with high-performing employees and "like a ziggurat," ascends from there, Kumar said. "If you have a good crew, you have flawless execution. If you have flawless execution, you have service excellence, which leads to client loyalty and profitable growth."
Culture changes in the workplace
It remains to be seen whether the tools will lead directly to profitable growth (the peak of the Vanguard ziggurat). Kumar is convinced, however, that the tools are driving a profound cultural change. In her view, they presage a fundamentally different workplace: a Vanguard where the corporate managerial hierarchies and even compensation structures are redefined by the collaborative work these new tools facilitate.
"Today, directionally, everything goes from top to bottom. But tomorrow the knowledge and the 'value-add' that a worker brings through collaboration will change all that," Kumar said.
It's already starting to happen at Vanguard, Kumar said. There, the chairman puts up proposals on the "crew ideation" site and asks employees to weigh in. "We changed our constitution based on the responses he got back from crew on what should be added and deleted," she said.
Corporate communication is starting to look like a two-way street. By the end of last year, the chairman's blog was getting 12,000 unique visitors a month. That means that practically every one of the firm's 12,500 employees was checking out what their boss has to say.
"I am so excited where the enterprise 2.0 project is today," Kumar said. "I cannot really believe that what was just a thought process during the budgeting season of 2008 is today a key enabler for cultural change."
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I am appreciate for answer. About my clonus is hard for me to explain in english how its looks but neurologist said for sure its clonus.Its looks like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GC8F2UMYbQ -example in sit possition when put food on fingers-all leg start shakeing. Or when neurologist put 2 of my fingers together (example thumb and ring finger) and he try with his finger -open this two, my finger was shaeking in clonus again.Soory my english is not good.
And makes me scared that i read in BFS clonus not appear. I dont know how about myclonus- but You said its part of BFS.I thought in BFS appear only fasciculations. So maybe i am wrong? I hope it.
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34 HASKINS & SELLS May THE asset of cash occupies an obviously important place in every business enterprise. It is the medium through which practically all transactions eventually are consummated. Barter is extremely rare in modern society. At the inception of an enterprise cash is required for the purchase of plant and equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other things necessary to the functions of the business. Occasionally such property is paid for by the .issuance of capital stock to the vendors. Usually, however, the greater part of it is paid for, within a short time if not immediately, in cash invested by the proprietors or obtained from the issuance of securities to the public. Cash is indispensable in the current operations of an enterprise. It is required for the purchase of materials and supplies, payment of salaries and wages, and settlement of expenses. Although materials usually are purchased on credit, cash is required for final discharge of the liability. These materials are used in production, and together with wages and expenses pass into inventories. As goods are sold, the values represented by the inventories pass, plus a profit, into accounts receivable, and sooner or later are liquidated into cash, thus completing the cycle. Cash, therefore, occupies a pivotal position. Cash may be considered generally from three angles. From the point of view of accounting there arises the question of the definition of the term and the position of cash in the balance sheet. From the standpoint of irregularities there is the necessity of safeguarding the funds against improper use and embezzlement. From the viewpoint of sound business there must be considered the question of conservation of cash resources and control of financial operations. In deciding what constitutes cash, it may be necessary to classify any or all of the following items: foreign currency; certificates of deposit; deposits to secure service or the return of property such as containers; deposits made by employes for keys or badges; deposits with trustees for sinking funds; advances to agents or others for working funds; vouchers representing disbursements from petty cash funds, not yet reimbursed; payroll advances; checks cashed for employes; etc. In many instances this question is of more than academic importance. A banker, for example, is vitally interested in knowing whether the item of cash in a balance sheet submitted by a prospective borrower includes a large amount of payroll advances and vouchers not yet reimbursed, or whether the entire amount is immediately available for discharging current liabilities. The pivotal position of cash, resulting in a continuous flow of checks and currency through an enterprise, and the ease with which cash may be exchanged for goods in satisfaction of one's wants, thus losing its identity, make it imperative that safeguards be placed around those who handle cash, in order to prevent misappropriation. Systems of office routine, control, and internal check, should be so arranged as to render it practically impossible for a dishonest employe to commit embezzlement without immediate detection. Opportunity for fraud depends largely upon the extent to which the cashier has access to incoming receipts, particularly currency, and the ease with which he may withdraw funds from the bank. Opportunity for concealment of irregularities depends upon the extent to which the cashier exercises control over, or has access to, the collateral records. Probably most discussions of cash are written from the standpoint of irregu- The Various Aspects of Cash
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Yoko Ono recently took out an ad in The New York Times declaring, "War is Over! If You Want it!" If the sentiment seemed familiar, that's because it appeared on billboards around the world, in a campaign sponsored by Ono and her husband, John Lennon, 40 years ago last month. The phrase, of course, also is part of the couple's 1972 song, "Happy Xmas (War is Over), which has become a holiday standard.
A week after Ono's anniversary ad in The Times, the paper published the latest op-ed piece from occasional guest columnist Bono, who offered a somewhat less terse vision for the future.
In a Top Ten-style article, part whimsical, part deadly serious, the U2 frontman and social activist floated ideas for the next decade, calling for everything from sexier cars to support for a developing cancer treatment. He also advocated for increased rotavirus vaccinations, stronger intellectual property right laws protecting artists from Internet file-sharing ripoffs and trumpeted a politician-free festival celebrating Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
He acknowledged the somewhat scatter-shot nature of his agenda: "They [the ideas] have little in common with one another except that I am seized by each, and moved by its potential to change our world."
The juxtaposition of Ono-Lennon campaign anniversary and Bono's message for the next decade is striking, in both the similarities and differences.
Both, of course, illustrate using celebrity as a platform for advocacy. Lennon, the first major rock star to put himself on the line for a cause, tended to speak in slogans – "War is Over," "Give Peace a Chance" ("We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks," he said in 1969).
Bono is more wide ranging in his causes and more, well, verbose, bordering on times at what some critics would call pomposity, which he tries to head off with self-deprecation. "I don't speak for the rest of the world," he noted in a previous Times op-ed. "Sometimes I think I do — but as my bandmates will quickly (and loudly) point out, I don't even speak for one small group of four musicians."
The world is both bigger and more connected than in Lennon's day, thanks to a revolution in communications and a greater recognition of common global interests, even if nations are divided by wealth, resources and vast differences of opinion on how to solve shared problems.
Bono's best moment in his Sunday op-ed, is his most Lennon-like: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that the regimes in North Korea, Myanmar and elsewhere are taking note of the trouble an aroused citizenry can give to tyrants, and that people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their [Martin Luther] King, their Aung San Suu Kyi."
In addition to placing the Times ad, Ono put the iconic "War is Over" poster on Flickr in some 70 languages (including Klingon), encouraging people to print out the placards and display them. Lennon chronicler Jon Wiener notes in The Nation that the posters also will appear this month on top of some 160 New York City cabs.
"Small Pebble People are people who know that small pebbles, when they're dropped in the ocean, will immediately affect the ocean of the whole wide world," Ono wrote on the Flickr page, in very Yoko-like prose.
"Don't throw a big stone. It scares people and creates repercussions. Just drop a small pebble. We'll keep doing it. Together. That's how the world gets changed...by Small Pebble People. We change, and the world changes."
The pebble can be rock. Bono picks up where Lennon started, showing the power of rock-and-roll as a positive social force, peddling peace and hope. He's also, like Lennon, unafraid to take a chance on looking foolish while using music to propagate ideas beyond primal, three-chord odes to love, lust and rebellion (not that there's anything wrong with those).
Bono is a great performer with a great heart, even if he sometimes goes overboard mixing music with shoutouts for favored causes and for politicians during concerts.
We'll judge him by his words – and his actions – with the ONE and (Product)RED efforts. Bono may be a dreamer, but like Lennon, he's not the only one.
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DevelopmentLagaf': Les Aventures de Moktar - Vol 1: La Zoubida is exactly the same game as Titus the Fox: To Marrakech and Back, because it was made under licence from a French singer Vincent Lagaf'. Lagaf' is popular in France, but nobody knows him outside, so the hero was swapped.
La Zoubida is in fact the name of a French humorous song by Lagaf", who also released Bô le lavabo around the same time. Still, Lagaf' quickly quit comedy and song to turn to TV shows, so a volume 2 of Les Aventures de Moktar was never released.
Vincent Lagaf' has been presenting the prime time French TV show Le Bigdil, adapted from the American show Let's make a deal, on the first French TV channel (TF1) since 1998. Also, he is actively involved in the organization of an international contest of jet-ski in Cavalaire, on the French Riviera near Saint-Tropez, each year in late September.
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'Angry Birds' to invade screens in new Sony Pictures 3D film
The popular video game "Angry Birds" is jumping off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced.
The film will be a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Finnish game-maker Rovio, and follows the game's foray into television with an animated weekly series that began in March this year.
"Sony impressed us with their great attitude, determination, and professionalism. They convinced us that we have found the right partners and team to help us market and distribute our first motion picture," Rovio Entertainment CEO Mikael Hed said in a statement.
The animated 3D film version will be made by the Sony Pictures Animation unit, which has a roster including recent films "The Smurfs" and "Hotel Transylvania."
"Every studio in town would love to add 'Angry Birds' to their slate. There are few titles out there that bring this kind of excitement, brand awareness and built-in audience to the table," Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Amy Pascal, co-chairman of the unit, said in a statement.
Producers David Maisel, the executive producer of "Iron Man," and John Cohen, the producer of "Despicable Me," are both on board for the project, which is yet to announce a director or cast.
The "Angry Birds" video game, where players use a slingshot to launch birds at green 'bad piggies' in an attempt to rescue their eggs back, launched in 2009 and has become the top paid application of all time with more than 1.7 billion downloads.
The weekly "Angry Birds Toons" animated series was launched through the app and select video-on-demand providers and TV networks around the world, with 150 million views within the first six weeks.
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A visual recording device or video camera was any device that could capture light in a way so that a scene that was captured could be recreated at a later time. First becoming popular on Earth during the 20th century, the technology was used well into the 24th century.
Devices seemingly identical in design and purpose were also known to exist on planets other than Earth. In 2268, similar devices were seen on 892-IV, (TOS: "Bread and Circuses") and film motion picture cameras existed on Ekos. (TOS: "Patterns of Force")
When the USS Voyager was thrown back in time and space to 1996 Earth, a man caught Voyager in low orbit with his camcorder during a barbecue. (VOY: "Future's End")
In 2151, Trip Tucker used a video camera device to take still images on an unknown planet, later named Archer IV. (ENT: "Strange New World")
In 2266, Montgomery Scott installed what appeared to be a video camera aboard the USS Enterprise to record the wedding of Angela Martine and Robert Tomlinson. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
In 2293, a journalist covering the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B wore a head-mounted video camera fit with an electric light. (Star Trek Generations)
Lieutenant junior grade Anthony Brevelle wore a head-mounted visual recording device during an investigation of missing Starfleet personnel on Tarchannen III. The image data collected was later used to discover an invisible species of alien. This device could be programmed to include data in the recording, like the stardate or the time of recording. It also included a light source that could be switched on if the surroundings were too dark. (TNG: "Identity Crisis")


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While the colorant used in most pond dye is unaffected by temperature, there may be other included ingredients that suffer from diminished performance in cooler temperatures.
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"The Expendable Man" Author Peter G. Pollak Visits with Mike Angley
MA: My guest today is Peter G. Pollak. Peter is a retired business executive who has also been an educator and editor of two weekly newspapers. He also runs a web business where he interviews people, and he writes a blog on New York State government and politics.
Welcome, Peter. Please tell us more about your background.
PP: My working titles have included visiting professor, editor, publisher, CEO and lately chairman (of the company I founded), but what has characterized my professional career has been a willingness to take a risk in order to make a difference. After finishing my B.A., I spent a year as a VISTA Volunteer. Although I went back to school and eventually earned a Ph.D. (in history and education), in between I was editor of two alternative newspapers. In 1985, I said good-bye forever to being an employee and started a press release delivery service which is still in existence (under the name readMedia). I'm semi-retired now, spending most of my time writing.
MA: With your particular credentials in business and journalism, how did you end up writing fiction?
PP: I love to read fiction. To me fiction is on par with painting, sculpture and music as a higher art form. It requires both talent and dedication and good fiction rewards the reader by transporting h/h to another reality. In doing so, the reader can experience life's horrors and its potentials.
MA: In your novel, did you create characters based upon people you've known in your personal and professional life?
PP: I don't draw on real people for my characters. I suppose my characters are composites of people I've met, read about or come in contact with in some other way.
MA: Tell us about your novel.
PP: The Expendable Man is a political thriller. The protagonist is thrown into a bad situation for which he is ill prepared. He not only has to find a way out of that situation, but in order to regain his life he must find out why he was put there in the first place. He must survive the crucibles of being wrongly convicted of a crime and contracting a normally fatal illness.
MA: I love political thrillers. What makes your hero who he is? Strengths? Weaknesses?
PP: At the beginning he's all about himself. He lacks family or friend. He's not a bad person, but one who hasn't allowed himself to smell the roses. No one can go through hell without being changed in the process. I hope my readers see the changes that take place in his personality as he struggles to regain his health and his freedom.
MA: Every good thriller has to have a bad guy, so I assume you have a unique one?
PP: Yes, of course. There is the person who sets the ball in motion and the one who has to do the dirty work of making my protagonist "expendable." Readers may recognize their types.
MA: I imagine you don't have any real life experiences that you drew from to create your story, or do you?
PP: I've been behind bars…for a few hours. I was arrested when I was about 19 for violating a local ordinance, selling without a permit. I was trying to earn money one summer selling encyclopedias. Later I had the privilege of teaching political science 101 to inmates at more than one NYS Correctional Institution (prison). What's worse than being locked up? Answer: facing a deadly disease. What if you had to contend with both? That's the fate of my protagonist.
MA: Well, I never saw that coming! What are your future writing plans?
PP: I'm working on a mystery which I hope to finish by the end of the summer and then publish a second mystery set in the same city using two of the characters from the first one. The protagonist of The Expendable Man has ridden off into the sunset. I'll let my readers imagine what his life is like, but I think readers will like the main characters in my next two novels — Jake Barnes, a retired cop turned P.I., and Karen Battaglia, recently promoted to detective on her local police force.
MA: Excellent! Any parting thoughts for my readers?
PP: If you live in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. region, I'd be happy to do a reading for your book club or other organization. Contact me through my website: http://www.petergpollak.com/


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With Georgina Haig cast as Frozen's Queen Elsa on Once Upon a Time (yay!), pictures of her on set out (yay times two!), and talk of more of the film's characters coming to Storybrooke (yay times three!), it was only a matter of time before the first official still was released. Now Time received the exclusive image of a stern Elsa talking with some mysterious*~* man.
All the essentials are there: the braid, the dress, the cold, firm eyes—though it is missing Anna, aka Elizabeth Lail. So next batch of images, ABC? Let it go (live) soon, please.
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Super producer Jerry Weintraub was honoured last night at the UNICEF Ball which is why his boys showed up dutifully to support him with George Clooney presenting. George, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon and all with their ladies at one event. Needless to say, there was nowhere else to be.
Brange put on a very, very happy glowy show in the face of the scandalous new book on shelves now calling for their imminent split. What's clear however is that they want you think there will be not be a split. Because it was only smiles last night as they fraternised with the Oceans crew, seated at the same table as Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis and Damon and his wife Luciana.
Here comes the Pitt Porn. There was a lot of assgrabbing. A lot of neck stroking. A lot of whispering and giggling, gazing at each other adoringly, hornily, and even several camera friendly moments with Muhammad Ali. The Jolie brought her A game last night, non? Even what she's wearing doesn't totally suck.
And the Italian Queen continues to own it too. These are major events with major players and she is right there with him, a constant fixture now, as we move further into award season, as the Best Actor fight becomes more and more fierce, George is riding the Ely and hoping she'll take him deep …into the late stages of campaigning. Oh la. Is this a demure Elisabetta, the gentle woman beside her man? Please. In the immortal words of Ali G:
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Tahoe/Truckee schools to celebrate Read Across America Day
Special to the Sun
TAHOE/TRUCKEE – Local leaders and educators of all stripes will be donning their Cat-in-the-Hat hats this week and reading to young children to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday in the days surrounding March 2.
A Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss will take place at Truckee Elementary School on Friday, March 1, from 5-7 p.m. The Family Fun Night Dr. Seuss birthday celebration is a community event put on by the Truckee Family Resource Center. Other community and classroom events are planned as well. These activities are fun and beneficial, however our commitment to early literacy must run deeper than a once a year celebration.
Across the country, two-thirds of students aren't reading proficiently by the end of third grade, a critical milestone that affects how they fare in school and whether they eventually graduate. In our local school district, 47 percent of TTUSD students are not proficient readers by the end of third grade. Within that, 74 percent of our low-income children are not proficient readers by this time.
This is why leaders in Tahoe/Truckee have made a remarkable commitment and come together behind a single goal: Increase the number of third graders reading at grade level.
Third grade marks the point when children transition from learning to read to reading to learn. We know that when children do not master reading by that point, they get left behind as the curriculum speeds forward with more complex assignments
Many eventually drop out of high school and fail to find success in the job market. Improving early reading can help us close achievement gaps, increase graduation rates, support our local economy and build a strong community.
Accomplishing this takes the whole community. Everyone can help. You can tutor a struggling reader, provide prizes for students who improve their school attendance, volunteer in a summer learning program or simply reach out to families in your neighborhood who need an extra hand.
You can also join our local "Tahoe Truckee Reads" coalition to help with the important work we're planning. Our next community meeting to focus on summer learning efforts is scheduled for Thursday, March 21. The Tahoe Truckee Reads steering committee has been meeting monthly for the past year and is working hard, with community support, to implement the nationally recognized literacy plan that was created.
Our Tahoe Truckee Reads team in partnership with our elementary schools and PTOs executed two successful community book drives redistributing thousands of books to our local youth. Our partners are reaching out to families with infants, toddlers and preschoolers to ensure they are talking and reading to their children regularly, enhancing their love of reading and language development.
We're enlisting health care providers to spread the early literacy message to parents. Our school district is launching Kinder Camp this summer to help smooth the transition of new students into kindergarten and to give them an early start in developing academic and social skills for success in school.
When children begin school, our teachers and administrators work with parents to ensure students attend regularly so they are engaged with the curriculum and are learning along with their peers.
The effect of missing even a few weeks of school in the early grades can resonate throughout a student's academic career. When teachers need to catch children up who have been absent, this can affect the learning of the other children.
For the summer, we're partnering with teachers and local summer programs through libraries, Parks and Recreation, Family Resource Centers and Boys and Girls Club to build capacity and support what students have learned the previous school year. We are working to prevent summer learning loss also referred to as "summer slide" and make sure students start the new year ready to move forward.
Central to this early literacy push are schools and teachers, who deliver the instruction and curriculum needed to instill a love of reading. But the schools can't do this alone. Tahoe Truckee Reads is a local partnership between Excellence in Education Foundation, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, Community Collaborative of Tahoe Truckee, First 5, Nevada and Placer Counties and Tahoe Truckee Unified School District.
This is a community wide issue and we need to work together as a community to find solutions to the barriers that children and families face that keep children from learning to read proficiently. Please join us on Thursday, March 21, from 4-5:30 p.m. at the TTUSD board room for our next community meeting.
We're one of 124 communities nationwide that has formed a local coalition and is working with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading to tackle these problems. We need everyone involved, not just parents and school, so that we can celebrate reading success every day of the year.
– Laura Abbey Brown is executive director of the Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation. Learn more at http://www.exined.org.


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Chopin's voices
A BBC Four documentary explores the female singers that inspired Chopin, writes Rebecca Franks
Chopin and the piano. The words will always go together - however much lovers of bad puns try to insist a better match for 'Chopin' is 'Liszt', 'Board' or 'Bag'. But, as a lunchtime recital at St George's Bristol reminded me yesterday, the poet of the piano did on occasion branch out into other musical realms. One of his lifelong loves, after all, wasn't the piano but the human voice.
One can hear the essence of Italian operatic melody – that entrancing singing style of Bellini and Donizetti – in the long-breathed lines of, for example, the Nocturnes. 'He was the first composer obsessed with the idea of reproducing the bel canto voice at the piano,' says Canadian pianist Louis Lortie in BBC Music Magazine. 'Chopin makes the piano sing like nobody else.' But it wasn't just popular opera tunes of the day that inspired him. The voices of particular singers, particularly female, caught his ear.
One of the first was Konstancja Gładowska, a young soprano for whom the 19-year-old pianist harboured a youthful passion. Later, when Chopin was immersed in the glamorous echelons of Parisian society, the promiscuous Countess Delfina Potocka (dubbed 'The Great Sinner') became one of his students and a muse. On his deathbed, it's reported, she was the person he begged to hear sing. Playing piano duets with the famous mezzo-soprano, and gifted pianist, Pauline Viardot was one of Chopin's great pleasures, while in the final few months of his life, he became besotted with the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind.
I didn't hear any of Chopin's 19 songs or any of his opera-infused piano music at the aforementioned concert. Instead, on the programme were two of his three works for cello. Yes, for this soulful string instrument Chopin wrote three complete pieces (and let's not forget the G minor Piano Trio either). The early Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 was, he wrote to his friend Titus Woyciechowski, 'nothing more than a brilliant salon piece, such as pleases ladies.' (No marks for flattery there, Chopin.) The most Parisian of 19th-century interests – the opera house – inspired the Grand Concertant in E, which draws on themes from Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable. But the substantial work of the cello triumvirate is the Sonata in G minor, written in 1845-46 for his friend, the cellist Auguste Franchomme.
So, why did the cello catch Chopin's interest? Perhaps it's because, of all the instruments, the cello is most like the human voice. It can soar to a soprano's high notes and sink to a bass's golden growl. Written after his bitter separation from the novelist George Sand, it seems unsurprising the Cello Sonata is in the dark key of G minor. The Largo seems to speak from the instrument's soul, a study in expressive melancholy. And are there, as some suggest, echoes of Schubert's song-cycle masterpiece charting lost love, Die Winterreise, in the Sonata's first movement?
A love of the voice is part of what makes Chopin, well, Chopin. But what, then, drew him to the individual female voices with which he became infatuated? It's the subject of pianist James Rhodes's BBC Four documentary, to be broadcast this evening (15 October) at 7.30pm, which sees him visiting Warsaw, Paris and London in search of their stories, and talking to pianists including Emanuel Ax and Garrick Ohlsson. For any Chopin fan, it should be one to watch.
Rebecca Franks is online editor and staff writer for BBC Music Magazine
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Researchers prepare medicine at a laboratory in Nanjing University in China. The clinical trials business has gone global as drugmakers seek cheaper venues for studies.
Anyone who watched the moon landing or uses the internet can attest to the strong tradition of scientific innovation in the United States. But China is now poised to blow past the U.S. to become dominant in science and engineering, as it has already done in global trade.
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing published a study highlighting China's growing scientific dominance in a recent issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Specifically, they focused on China's potential to knock the U.S. out of its spot as the world's undisputed leader in the science, tech, engineering, and math fields — collectively called STEM.
The researchers write: "Two recent reports by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine have raised concerns that the United States may soon lose its scientific leadership role and suffer negative economic consequences."
These three charts make their case.
China is churning out a staggering number of science graduates.
While China and the U.S. currently award science and engineering degrees to an equivalent proportion of their populations, China has sharply increased the number of graduates in these fields — and the U.S. does not seem poised to catch up anytime soon.
Chinese students also receive more American doctoral degrees in science and engineering than any other foreign students. Between 1987 and 2010, there was a threefold increase in the number of Chinese students in these programs (from 15,000 to 43,000).
China's science and engineering labor force is exploding.
The U.S. has a much smaller population and yet is still ahead of China in terms of how many people work in science and engineering fields. But while the growth of the U.S.'s STEM labor force has been slow and steady, the growth of this specialized workforce in China has exploded in the last 10 years. The paper attributes this to the expansion of higher education in China that began in 1999.
Chinese scientists get paid more than American scientists.
People who pursue science in China have much better earning potential than their counterparts in the U.S. Chinese scientists are paid better than their highly educated peers, while in the U.S., the reverse is true. U.S. lawyers, for example, go to school for less time than Ph.D. scientists, but make much more money.
"When talented youth face alternative career options, everything else being equal, more Chinese would be attracted to science than Americans," because of the pay the researchers write.
The PNAS researchers identify "four factors [that] favor China's continuing rise in science: a large population and human capital base, a labor market favoring academic meritocracy, a large diaspora of Chinese-origin scientists, and a centralized government willing to invest in science."
Still, scientists in the United States have some serious advantages, since, as the researchers note, "China's science faces potential difficulties due to political interference and scientific fraud."
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Stanford gets a chaplain for atheists
Chaplain John Figdor has a divinity degree from Harvard. He counsels those in need and visits the sick. And he works with Stanford students under the Office of Religious Life.
So Figdor is the last guy you'd tag with the "A" word.
But, yes. The chaplain is an atheist.
"People are shocked when I tell them," Figdor said. "But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students - deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. - and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to."
Figdor, 28, is one of a growing number of faith-free chaplains at universities, in the military and in the community who believe that nonbelievers can benefit from just about everything religion offers except God.
Hired in July by the Humanist Community at Stanford, a nonprofit group independent of the university, Figdor is one of 18 "professional leaders" at the Office of Religious Life who typically work with sectarian student groups that pay their salaries. A graduate theological degree is required for the job, and the leader is entitled to office space on campus, a parking spot and a Stanford e-mail address. The leaders guide students in whatever way is needed, whether offering advice or organizing events.
But Figdor's flock already extends beyond Stanford.
"A lot of people go back to religious organizations when they start having children," whether or not they believe in God, because religion offers community, Figdor said. "What I really want to do is create a vibrant, humanist community here in Silicon Valley, where people can find babysitters for their kids and young people can meet each other."
In the suburbs north of Manhattan, Figdor's parents sent him to Sunday school- not for religion, but to gain a moral center, he said. Today, Figdor says that belief in a supreme being isn't a prerequisite to being a moral person.
In humanism, "we emphasize the values of compassion and empathy alongside reason and science," he said. "Humanism is about using science and technology to solve human problems. But it's also the belief that we should ask if something will create suffering or ameliorate it."
Armand Rundquist, 26, a Stanford graduate student in electrical engineering and president of AHA! - the campus group of atheists, humanists and agnostics - said many atheists aren't interested in having a chaplain.
Then they discovered additional benefits to Figdor's talents.
"He got us some discount tickets to the atheist film festival in San Francisco," said Rundquist, adding that "it's been really great" to have Figdor as part of what he called a new movement at Stanford.
Being included
Yet it was Stanford's theists, not its atheists, who insisted that there was a place for AHA! within the university's Office of Religious Life.
The Rev. Scotty McLennan, Stanford's dean for religious life, did the insisting, largely because Stanford's Memorial Church, the centerpiece of the campus, had been founded on a principle of inclusion.
In his 2007 sermon titled "The Wide Open Church," McLennan said that Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of San Francisco had been among the clergy invited by Jane Stanford to help dedicate the new church in 1903.
McLennan quoted Voorsanger telling his audience that at Stanford, then 12 years old, "Unitarians, Trinitarians, infidels, Brahmins, Buddhists, Mohammedans, materialists, atheists, all have been heard, all were welcomed, the main condition of their welcome being that they must have something to say."
A century later, Figdor has something to say.
Forced prayer
He began to recognize what it was about five years ago while working with victims of domestic violence in Butte, Mont., with the AmeriCorps Vista program.
"I was able to see firsthand the experience the women had with religion," he said. "Their religion would tell them, 'You're supposed to keep your family together no matter how bad it gets.' "
He also encountered a homeless shelter that "forced people to pray if they wanted to eat," he said. "This was a serious problem in American society."
Figdor planned to become a journalist writing about religion and entered Harvard's masters program in theological studies. When he switched to the more rigorous masters of divinity and met Greg Epstein, Harvard's humanist chaplain, Figdor found a new calling.
He became Epstein's assistant chaplain, which became a full-time job after Figdor graduated in 2010.
"We did tons of things - a mix of ministering, community organizing and social coordinating," he said. "And there would be a student event - either dinner or a movie - at 7 p.m. every week without fail on Monday."
Not Sunday?
"Students are not that available on Sunday morning," Figdor said. "And we atheists like to get up a little later in the morning on Sundays."
Defining religion
Meanwhile in Palo Alto, a real estate developer named Norm Schwab had become the chairman of the board of the new Humanist Community at Stanford and hired Figdor.
"The question is, how do you define a religion?" Schwab asked. "This country gives advantages to groups that define themselves as a religion."
A priest's salary is subsidized by the government because the Catholic Church pays no taxes, he said, but the humanists who now pay Figdor's salary get no such benefit.
"It makes a very big difference in the long run," he said.
The word "chaplain," with religious origins dating back to the fourth century, "is not a perfect description" for a secular leader, but it demonstrates a parallel status, Schwab said.
Now Figdor is bringing the work he did at Harvard over to Stanford, including working with students on such seasonal favorites as "The Heathen's Guide to the Holidays."
A different holiday
Which raises the question: What should heathens celebrate?
"At Harvard we used the 'Seinfeld' holiday, Festivus - the holiday for the rest of us," Figdor laughed.
Celebrated each Dec. 23, Festivus includes such traditions as the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength." Invented in the 1960s by a Reader's Digest editor named Daniel O'Keefe, the holiday became known to the world when a screenwriter for the TV sitcom "Seinfeld" - O'Keefe's son Daniel - wrote his father's invention into a show.
And hymns?
Figdor offered two: John Lennon's "Imagine," of course, and anything by a certain punk band whose lead singer, Greg Graffin, wrote his doctoral dissertation on evolution at Cornell University.
The band is called Bad Religion.
Nanette Asimov is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @NanetteAsimov


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ITHACA, N.Y. – Christian Webster tallied a game-high 20 points and was 9-of-9 from the free-throw line, and Brandyn Curry added 18 points and five assists, as the Harvard men's basketball team topped Cornell, 73-60, Friday evening. The win moves the Crimson to 8-1 in the Ivy League, as the team is off to its best start in conference play in program history.
The victory improves Harvard' s overall record to 19-4, tying the mark for the second most wins in program history (19-3 in 1945-46). The Crimson also earns the season sweep of Cornell and stretches its win streak to four games. Cornell drops to 6-17 overall and 2-7 in the Ancient Eight.
Curry was 6-of-6 from the line, as the Crimson finished 29-of-35 from the charity stripe (.829) as a team. Keith Wright recorded his 10th double-double, scoring 10 points and coming down with 11 rebounds, while Kyle Casey (11) and Laurent Rivard also reached double figures.
A trey from the left wing out of the hands of Webster gave Harvard an early 3-0 lead, and then Wright added a layup from the right of the basket to make it 5-0 in favor of the Crimson. With Harvard leading 6-2, Webster was fouled trying another triple from the right corner. Webster buried all three chances, increasing the advantage to 9-2 at the 15:56 mark. A floater in the paint by Brandyn Curry helped Harvard open up to a 10-point lead, 12-2. Moments later, Curry buried a 3-pointer from the right corner, upping Harvard's lead to 15-4.
The Big Red netted nine of the next 11 points to get within four, 17-13. With the shot clock winding down on Harvard' next possession, Kyle Casey connected on a 15-foot jumper to put the Crimson back up by six, 19-13. Wright added a layup on the next trip down the floor, giving Harvard a 21-13 lead prior to the third media timeout. Laurent Rivard got a shooter's roll on a trey from the right side with just over five minutes to go in the frame, making it 28-17 in favor of the Crimson. Webster drew a second foul while attempting a 3-pointer with 2:40 remaining in the half and hit all three of them once again, giving Harvard a 12-point edge, 31-19.
The Crimson used a 16-2 advantage in points from the charity stripe in the first half to carry a 37-24 lead into the break. Curry led Harvard with 11 points and four assists at halftime, while Webster added nine points.
Wright gave Harvard its biggest lead to that point, 39-24, with an offensive rebound and layup to open the second half. The Big Red, though, answered with a six-point run to get within nine, 39-30, with 17:00 left to play. Curry put an end to the Cornell run by stepping into a 3-pointer from the top of the key, putting the Crimson back up by double digits, 42-30. With 14:53 remaining, Webster drew contact for the third occasion while attempting a trey and this time he drained the triple. Webster connected on the ensuing free throw, making it 48-34 in favor of Harvard.
With just under 12 minutes remaining, Wright found a wide-open Webster for a 3-pointers, as Harvard went up by 17, 53-36. Casey made a trey of his own with 10:12 left, as Harvard continued to pull away, 55-36. Moments later, a mid-range jump shot by Rivard gave Harvard a 21-point cushion, 57-36.
After Cornell got back within 12, 58-46, Oliver McNally drew a foul while driving the lane and hit both free throws. Casey connected on two more free throws, as Harvard utilized the foul line, making it in a row, to go back up by 20, 66-46.
With 1:38 remaining, Curry missed a jumper by Casey was there for a strong dunk with his right hand, making it 73-56 and putting an exclamation point on the evening.
Cornell outrebounded Harvard, 32-29, and had an edge in assists, 14-11. The Crimson shot 46.3 percent from the floor for the game and was 6-of-16 from long range (.375).
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OCEAN CITY – Despite a sluggish economy that has made finding sponsors difficult and the obstacle the ongoing work on the Route 50 Bridge creates, the 2009 Ocean City Half-Marathon is shaping up to be a huge success with twice as many runners registered for the race compared to last year's event.
For three years, OC Tri-Running Sports, formerly Extreme Dream Events, produced an annual marathon in Ocean City each April, attracting hundreds of racers from all over the country for a full marathon, half marathon and 5K race. Last year, however, uncertainties about work on the Route 50 bridge, which was closed for a month in January and February, race organizers scrapped the full marathon and devoted their efforts to a less cumbersome half-marathon and 5K race.
This year, OC Tri-Running Sports will again host the annual half-marathon and 5K race next Saturday, April 18, and despite economic uncertainties tempering sponsorship dollars and the second-phase of the work on the bridge, everything points to an extremely successful event next Saturday.
"We're very excited about how this is going thus far," said OC Tri-Running Sports spokesman Charlie McClure this week. "In this economy, it was a little difficult finding sponsors willing to commit and our budget has been reduced by about 10 to 15 percent, but the interest in the race from a participant standpoint has been outstanding. Last year, we had about 250 racers and this year, we have about 500 signed up already."
McClure said concerns about the ongoing work on the Harry Kelley Bridge, which forced organizers to scale back the event last year, have not been a problem this year.
"We've worked with the Ocean City Police Department and State Highway officials and everything is a go in terms of getting across the bridge," he said. "We don't anticipate any problems with that at all."
The half-marathon course starts at the Ocean City Inlet and moves up the Boardwalk to North Division Street where runners will turn left and cross the bridge. From there, racers will turn into the Park and Ride and connect to Old Bridge Rd., which will take them to Route 611.
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New Year is celebrated with gaiety and pomp around the world wherever Hindus live, but not on January 1. India's ancient faith salutes the annual genesis at the start of spring, when nature comes to life, in mid-April. The festival has a different name in each regional language; Baisakhi, Vishu, Varusha Pirappu, Ugadi, Badi Deepavali and Bestu Varas are just a few. Homes are lit with oil lamps and decorated with flowers to attract blessings.
Like most ancient cultures, Hindus traditionally observe the start of each new year with the arrival of spring, which occurs in mid-April in South Asia. That day coincides with the Sun's entrance into the constellation Mesha (Aries), the first sign in Hindu astrology. Following this astrological calculation, the celebration falls on April 14 in most years.
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With our community's growing population, stormwater drainage and flooding are becoming increasingly important issues. The City currently has no dedicated funding source to address its backlog of drainage needs or to meet regulatory mandates.
In order to avoid future drainage issues as our community grows, the City recognizes that there is an immediate need to find sustainable funding options for stormwater management. We also recognize that these options must be guided by some of the City's key principles, such as ecosystem preservation, well-maintained infrastructure and facilities, and a financially sustainable City government.
The Mayor and City Council are asking residents and businesses in Fayetteville to participate in a Flood Management and Water Quality Funding Study.
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The purpose of the study is to present options for sustainable funding for stormwater management, to reduce flooding, and protect water quality. As part of the study the consultant will:
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We write software for financial companies who subscriber to market data (stocks, etc)The logo need not have anything to do with stocks or tech or software - in fact probably better off not trying to incorporate that.company name is market data toolsThis is for company logo - website, letterhead, shirts, etc
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LONDON, England.- Tate announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2003, sponsored by Channel 4. The artists are:
Jake and Dinos Chapman for their exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, White Cube, London and Modern Art Oxford in which their striking sculptural installations and graphic works investigate society's taboos with humour and provocation, appropriating imagery from diverse sources including historic art and consumer culture.
Willie Doherty for the continuing strength and relevance of his film installations and photographic works in addressing the complexities of living in divided societies as demonstrated in his exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and his contribution to the XXV São Paulo Bienal.
Anya Gallaccio for solo presentations of her work at Tate Britain and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in which she furthered her innovative explorations of the tension between organic and traditional sculptural materials, such as sugar, wax and bronze, to create poetic works which encapsulate the passing of time.
Grayson Perry for his unique work exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Barbican Art Gallery, London, which combined the traditions of fine and decorative arts, including drawing, embroidery and ceramics, to explore compelling personal and social themes.The Turner Prize, now in its twentieth year, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 9 May 2003. The Prize was established in 1984 by Tate's Patrons of New Art and is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art. It is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.
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The members of the Turner Prize 2003 Jury are: Richard Calvocoressi, Director, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Frank Cohen, representative of the Patrons of New Art; Chrissie Iles, Curator, Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art; Andrew Wilson, Critic and Deputy Editor, Art Monthly; Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate and Chairman of the Jury.
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Today at gamescom in Cologne, Germany, we announced the Halo Channel. Debuting this November exclusively on Xbox One, it will be your destination for all things Halo Universe. We have a video that offers just a peek at some of the incredible original content, interactive features, and unlockable treats that await you.
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No Tears shed over the Bradley Deal
Oh Well, You knew something had to go wrong with the the whole scenario with the possbile swapping of "bad contracts" scapegoats between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago Cubs. We all had that vivid daydream of the Rays effectively erasing their Winter 2008 decision of signing their current Designated Scapegoat Pat Burrell. And maybe the Cubs kept the Rays from making a hugely volatile Public Relations nightmare by trading Milton Bradley…..but not to the Rays.
And maybe the predictability of this deal finally cracking in half and sinking out of sight was actually in the cards the whole time, but we all just did not want to see it. Could there have been a possibility that the Rays were more than happy to take one season of Burrell at $ 9 million instead of the distinctive possibility of having Bradley in their system for two seasons. Could that wise decision by the Rays to act like a steel beam and not flex at all in their demands actually end up as a good thing?
More and more it is looking like Rays Vice President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman again drew an Ace from the deck filled with Jokers in standing like a guard at Buckungham Palace and not flinching at all to any change in the course of the deal. Sure the extra influx of capital might have helped put a temporary seal on the leaking piggybank of the Rays salary splurge for closer Rafael Sorano.
Maybe the simple fact that the Rays and their boy genius sticking to their guns turned the Cubs to looking in other directions and not only saved the Rays some possible problems in the future, but actually showed they would not be bullied just to complete a deal. Again, I have to say that the stolic mindset of the Rays boy genius might have been the main reason to celebrate right now.
Even if the Rays did take the Cubbies money and run with Bradley, you could already envision the teams trying to tweak the system to find an out clause somewhere within Bradley's 2011 contract. And how soon tdo all of us who follow the Rays forget how all of us gushed back in the Winter of 2008 about the possibilities of the Rays entertaining a contract to bring then free agent Bradley into the Rays fold. I know I can admit it now, that at the time,I thought it was a great thing….yep, he even had me at hello.
So maybe the Rays trade cards are not coming up perfect for the team right now. But I am actually glad that this deal went down the tubes and that Bradley is heading somewhere else now. And maybe it is by the sheer maddness of the Rays not backing down,or even caving in a inch that we got excluded out of this Bradley final equation. Maybe for one of the first times, the hard line by the Sternberg administration/front office to standing tall and not budging worked in our favor to get 86'd from the Bradley resolution.
But now that Bradley is headed for the Emerald City of Seattle from Chi-town, you have to wonder just when did the deal turn towards the Mariner's favor. I hate to tell you this, but it really doesn't matter now. Bradley is out of sight out of mind in both Chicago and Tampa Bay right now. And I do hope that he can find some level of peace within the Pacific Northwest, but right now I am glad to be Bradley-free.
Some around the Rays Republic might view today's trade news with some sense of sorrow and dismay of not getting the trade done. But in reality, the Rays standing firm in their trade negotiations might have actually saved the Rays clubhouse and the fan base a load of trouble if Bradley had found fault within the Rays system. Maybe we dodged a bullet by this deal falling through the way it did….. We might not know the real outcome of this "success or failure" until next September.
The Bradley/Silva deal is done and headed for Commissioner Bud Selig's seal of approval. Maybe for this one instance the fact the Rays did not act or react might end up being the best decision of the 2009 off season. We dreamed of this deal going through. Maybe the reality of it failing will actually be the best case scenario for everyone involved.
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I would breathe a sigh of relief that the Rays didn't trade for Bradley. As I've said, I know he has a ton of talent, but did you really need that headache? Noooo.
I have been going back and forth as if my opinions on this deal were tied to a pendulum, but now I can honestly say I am also glad and not sad that the motion stopped finally.
Bradley has a ton of talent, but sometimes a guy can have a personality flaw that just makes him not worth the talent.
We have seen it with so many athletes.
His talent is superior, but his actions make it such that the distractions tear a team apart from the inside out….
Rays Renegade
Have to say, you are one of only a handful of people I know who actually goes back into the archives………..and I thank you for that.
Yeah, Bradley would have brought some financial relief, but the headaches might not have made it totally worth the trouble in the end.
Troy frinkin' Percival…………..argggg. He is like a boil on my brain.
I have only hated three Rays players, he is number 1 with a bullet!
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I think you will find this non-deal to be greatly to your advantage. I was just reading your post about your failed experiment with Troy Percival with great interest. I think Bradley would have been a similar fiasco waiting to happen. Wait no more. You don't need that kind of headache.
I would not be worrying about this one.
The only reason Seattle picked this tempermental two-year old up is because of Ken Griffey Jr. Junior is in the fold another season because they 'committed' to winning. With Cliff Lee, Choan Figgens and possibly a Jason Bay in the mix, that's obvious. Bradley could be the consolation prize on Bay (if the Mets or Yanks get serious) but he'll also be closely mentored aka babysat by Junior, who I'm sure at this point in his HOF career would have no problem *****-slapping him if he pulls his normal attitude. The atmosphere in Seattle, like a Boston or Tampa, would seem to squash such immature stupidity… and we all know that the Boston clubhouse of the 80's/90's and the Rays of the late 90's early '00 couldn't say that.
Speaking of… has anyone figured out why The Sox have settled on Mike Cameron in left this year? If I'm not mistaken… Carl Crawford goes free agent next winter, does he not? Could be why some teams are iffy on Bay Holliday… Yes rumor has it he could be shipped by the deadline, but will probably be dipping a toe in the FA waters. And like Jaws after a tastey boy on a raft, Boston and The Evil Empire will be swooping in. If Crawford and Joe Mauer are not re-signed by either of their teams… one or both could be sporting Scarlett Hose or Pinstripes in 2011.
Food for thought.
Until next Winter, Carl Crawford will be with the Rays.
They are working behind the scenes trying to get an extension, but it has been touch and go from what I am hearing.
Mike Cameron might actually play center if they trade Ellsbury, but all is hearsay until then.
Evil Empire might just get Mauer, but CC is actually looking a bit west from what I am gathering.
Rays Renegade
Oh yeah… Burrell, a former Sox draft pick who we never signed (like Mark Texeira (twice), oh joy)…
If he's going into a contract year, look for much bigger things out of him. Switching leagues, being the cock of the walk after the 2008 WS win in Philly and whatever mental maladjustment may have followed should be corrected. I'd expect a good first half with a lot of trade talks towards the deadline giving your Rays a chance to snag some prospects to hopefully replace a few of your young soon to be FA's who will no longer be 'economically viable' in the Florida baseball economy.


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