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by George Malik on 08/28/13 at 10:17 AM ET
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Okay, as those of you who've been anywhere near a computer over the past five days are probably "Olympic'ed out," here is an incredibly brief summary of the coverage of Red Wings-related stories from "out of town" sources over the past four days:
USA Today:
- If Kevin Allen knows who will start in Team USA's net, he's not telling, and he noted that Team USA is both deep and young;
- And Team USA's jersey is either subtle or TOO subtle.
- In an Insider-only entry, Craig Custance echoed the "young and stacked"...Erm, I mean deep and young...Erm...Nevermind...Custance also believes that Howard will back up Jonathan Quick:
2. Jimmy Howard, Detroit Red Wings
We look back now at the 2013 playoffs and remember Corey Crawford's resiliency and ability to bounce back from bad moments propelled the Blackhawks to a Stanley Cup. And at times, we forget just how close Howard came to ending Chicago's run and carrying Detroit to the Western Conference finals in an outcome that might have further raised his profile like Crawford's. The Red Wings were up 2-1 in the third period of a Game 6 that could have eliminated Chicago in the Western Conference semis, and Howard's strong play that series was a huge reason.
Howard finished the 2013 playoffs with a .924 save percentage, and in three Detroit wins over the eventual champs he allowed just two goals combined. His postseason solidified him as a playoff performer. He also gained international experience in the 2012 world championships, where he went 5-2 with a .910 save percentage.
- Team Canada coach Mike Babcock explained his reasoning for a little "ball hockey" to ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, and he also chatted about playing on a 200'x100' surface:
"They [the players] came here for three simple things. No. 1 was to get to know everybody better from players to coaches to management to trainers, to get to know them and have a comfort level," Babcock said.
"No. 2 is to understand the details of how we're going to play -- terminology, where to stand, how to play in your own zone, how to play on the power play, penalty kill. We've gone over and over that. The walk-throughs made it slow enough to really spend some time on it.
"The third thing I think was critical for them is the evaluation process. How do you get to Sochi? We've tried to explain it to each and every guy so when they leave here they've got three months to do their part. They're in control of whether they go."
More from Babs, which you've probably heard:
"I thought it was a real good day for us," Babcock said. "Obviously, I have never done this before. We've put a lot of planning into it. I spent a lot of time talking to people to gather the information -- [head coach] Tom Izzo in particular with Michigan State basketball. He talks about the walk-throughs, and [they are] part of the reason that he believes they've been to six Final Fours in the last 15 years. Todd Downing is a quarterback coach with the Lions. He talked about the plays they walk through each and every day and the muscle memory and the timing and spacing that's going on.
"This is a big sheet, and guys aren't used to it. It's even bigger when you can't move very fast, and you couldn't go very fast today. But I thought it was a good teaching tool. The other thing is when you've got 23 guys on your team, you usually got to teach 23 different ways. Everybody learns different, so when you see it on video, it's one way you see it. In a book, it's another way. You've got a posting on the wall, you walk through it again and then you talk about it. To me, what we're trying to do is get them to understand the way we're going to play, so it meets the comfort for them when they arrive in Sochi."
- TSN did post an interview with Babcock on Sunday, not one, not two, but three videos of the "ball hockey" practice, and Babcock even talked when he arrived in Calgary, oboy!
- Babcock told the Canadian Press that he may employ the "walk-through" with the Wings:
The Detroit Red Wings head coach entertained the notion a walk-through could perhaps replace the game-day skate in the NHL.
"Why not? You'll see the Red Wings doing this in their hotel one day, for sure, to work on the power-play," Babcock said. "The National Hockey League's 82 games and it's a grind.
"You know how much work this was for these guys to lay down this floor and put the lines on it? It would be way easier to come here and skate. Let's not kid ourselves. I'd rather be skating. I'd learn way more about these players. But it was fun and it keeps you guys entertained."
- Blah blah blah dynamic coaches, blah blah blah big ice;
- And amen to this quip from Babcock to the CP:
Coach Mike Babcock won't hesitate to play them out of position to get their talent on the roster. He expects to have a lot of centres on Team Canada.
"I just know in our own situation in Detroit, we play our best players all over," Babcock said. "We just like them on the ice. And we're going to do the same thing here. The best players are going to play."
We All Bleed Red has more from Babcock if you're interested, but Babcock did speak with Hockeycentral on Saturday, and this is good:
The Score:
- Thankfully, Justin Bourne posted a Twitter picture of Scotty Bowman's Cup rings instead of Olympic fluffernutter.
Sports Ilustrated:
- Again, SI's Allan Muir's picking exactly zero Wings to start on Team USA's Olympic roster.
- Chris Peters notes that the Russian jerseys are...different.
The Sporting News:
- Christian Roatis notes more about Babcock's ball hockey inspiration:
When asked about how he came up with the idea, Babcock said he drew inspiration from some of his Michigan coaching brethren, in partcular Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo and Detroit Lions quarterback coach Todd Downey.
"Tom Izzo is a Hall of Fame basketball coach," Babcock said. "When I phoned him, he was thrilled to talk to me and had a bunch of ideas for me. We talked back and forth, he was able to help me understand the process so we could present something to the players so they could learn but also so I was confident enough that we could do this."
Babcock praised Downey effusively.
"He was fantastic. Actually, he was brilliant. He had so many good ideas for me," Babcock said. "It's easy for me to come out and run stuff when you're on the ice. That's what I do for a living. This isn't what I do for a living, so I didn't know how it was going to be."
- Babcock is Babcock, per IIHF.com's Chris Jurewicz:
Mike Babcock, Canada's head coach, figures it's pretty cut and dried on what's needed to play for Canada as the country attempts to defend the gold medal it won in 2010 in Vancouver.
"The guys who are playing the best (during the NHL season) will be on the team. Guys who can skate, the guys that take care of the puck, the guys that play 200 feet... are going to play for us," said Babcock.
Babcock and Yzerman both agree that, ideally, they would have the players on the ice. That said, they feel there is still the chance to accomplish a lot during the off-ice orientation camp. Babcock and his staff will hold a pair of walkthroughs – a term widely-used in American-style football – to instruct players on certain systems.
"It's three things," explained Babcock about the importance of the orientation camp.
"You get to know one another... That's a priority. Number 2 is to understand how we're going to play, the details, the spacing on the ice, how big it is, where you're supposed to be, understanding the terminology and what's going on. The third thing for me is that being an Olympian is much bigger than just being part of a regular hockey team. You're part of a bigger team – the Canadian team."
The CBC:
- Here's a good one from Tim Wharnsby:
At first, Dylan Walchuk thought someone was playing a joke on him when he answered his phone on Sunday evening. But this was no joke.
The voice on the other end was Mark Howell, his new coach at the University of Calgary. He informed his incoming freshman forward that Hockey Canada wanted Walchuk to help out the Canadian men's Olympic team in their ball hockey walk-through on Monday.
"It was like a dream come true," he said. "It was sweet. To see those guys on TV all the time and then getting to play with them, they're all good guys and it was an experience I will never forget. It will be cool to see myself on television tonight."
Hockey Canada needed someone to fill in for Joe Thornton. The San Jose Sharks captain stayed home this week because his two-month-old baby boy briefly had to be hospitalized with an illness. When the 5-foot-9, 170-pound Walchuk entered Canada's dressing room, he found his stall right between Crosby and Brad Marchand. He even had a brief discussion with Crosby.
So why did Hockey Canada choose Walchuk? Well, when Babcock and his assistants put the University of Calgary through a practice last week, Babcock was impressed with the former Spokane Chiefs forward. It probably didn't hurt that when Babcock coached junior, it was in Spokane.
"That's the best story about this whole thing so far," Babcock said. "Life is about what you make of it. Mark Howell and the U of C Dinosaurs helped us out, and they helped us out to get the coaches organized. Their team had a team party, a double-kegger the night before I came in. We put them through the paces and that kid was the best kid on the ice by a million miles. So when Thornton couldn't come in, that's how life should be -- when you do good things, good things happen. He did a good job. He didn't have to. He did a good job, was excellent out there."
After he explored opportunities in Europe and the ECHL, the 21-year-old Walchuk of McBride, B.C., only decided to attend the University of Calgary a couple weeks ago. He will study business.
Babcock also talked with Wharnsby about adding Ralph Krueger to the coaching mix, the ball hockey game, he praised Roberto Luongo and he was blunt about what players need to do to make the team:
"We've tried to explain to each guy that they have three months to do their part, and that they're in control whether they go," Babcock said. "I think it's very specific. You tell them how they have to play to be on this team. You tell them the way they have to take care of the puck, the way you skate, the way you play defence, what's involved and what we're looking for."
Yzerman and the management team, as well as Babcock and his assistant coaches, want even the best offensive players paying attention to defence.
"The way I look at it, all the best teams in the league that win, play right," Babcock said. "Their offensive players play without the puck. So if you think you're playing the other way, you're not coming."
The players had to stay off the ice because of insurance costs. But the walk-throughs on Tuesday were noticeably slower than on Monday. There was concern that the players' pace was too swift in the earlier sessions. Finally, Babcock wanted the players to understand what they need to exhibit in the first three months to make the team.
"If you're leaving here without an idea, you didn't listen," he said.
Could this team be younger than the 2010 gold-medal squad?
"The only thing I've seen is there is so much experience in this group," Babcock said. "There are so many medals, so many championships and I'm comfortable with that. But obviously, it's going to be different [than Vancouver] and it should be."
- Teaching, teaching, teaching, per NHL.com's Aaron Vickers:
"They came here for three simple things," Babcock said. "No. 1 was to get to know everybody better, from players to coaches to management to trainers, to get to know them and have a comfort level.
"No. 2 is to understand the details of how we're going to play: terminology, where to stand, how to play in your own zone, how to play on the power play, penalty kill. We've gone over and over that. The walk-throughs made it slow enough to really spend some time on
"The third thing I think was critical for them is the evaluation process. How do you get to Sochi? We've tried to explain it to each and every guy so when they leave here they've got three months to do their part. They're in control of whether they go."
- This is a great quote, per NHL.com's Dan Rosen...
"Being an Olympian to me is much bigger than just being part of a regular hockey team," Babcock said. "You're part of a bigger team: the Canadian team. That's not just the Canadian hockey team, that's the Canadian Olympic team. I think it's a special, special thing. When you get special opportunities, your preparation should be the same. Our preparation this week has to be gold-medal preparation."
From there it will be all about waiting and watching to see who stands out in the first three months of the NHL season. Babcock made it clear that nobody from the 2010 team will be given an advantage.
"That's over with," he said. "This is a new opportunity, and so some guys who played on that team are still on the top of their game. They're going to be on the next team. Some guys that were on that team didn't get invited to the camp and their career is not at that point. So once again, it's the best guys that are going to play on the team."
- Ditto, from Rosen:
Babcock said it was also important for him to get out on the floor and teach because he never feels he gets enough out of watching a video clip.
"I don't learn very good by watching TV," Babcock said. "I'm a schoolteacher by trade. You go through all these different ways of teaching, they've got to grab onto something. Plus, it's fun. They're out here joking around -- bad pass here or pick up there, little things like that. I thought it was very, very good."
Babcock indicated that he may actually take the walk-through back to his team in Detroit and use it in the hotel on the road in lieu of a morning skate.
"You'll see the Red Wings doing this in their hotel one day for sure to work on the power play," Babcock said. "I thought this was great. It wasn't hard. No one got hurt. There was no wear and tear on the body. It was fun, and it was different. The National Hockey League is 82 games and it's a grind. There was nothing wrong with this. It was good."
Still, though, Babcock wishes he didn't have to use the walk-through Monday to get his systems in place.
"Let's not kid ourselves, I would rather be skating," he said. "I'd learn way more about these players, but it was fun and it keeps you guys [the media] entertained, too."
- NHL.com also posited an "ABC's of Fantasy Hockey," a top 200 list and a list of the top 50 fantasy hockey players, in which Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk rank 17th and 18th, respectively. Matt Cubeta does believe that Justin Abdelkader is a "fantasy sleeper."
Calgary Sun:
- Eric Francis spoke with Babcock about goaltending and the fact that he wants "no-risk" players.
Vancouver Sun:
- Cam Cole asked Babcock whether he expected his players to remember any of the drills...
The hope is that all the ideas and terminology filtered through, and will stay in the memory banks.
"We're going to have the same retention we did last time, without any question," Babcock said. "What we're not getting out of this camp is the evaluation part. We get everything else. They're going to go back to their teams and they're not going to think about any of this stuff. But when you turn the light bulbs on for them again, the terminology, the patterns, what's expected, it's all going to be the same. They're smart guys ... and when they get to Sochi, they'll be way ahead."
And Jonathan Toews praised Babcock:
"One of the good things about him as a coach is he's very detailed and very specific," said Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews. "He requires attention from all his players and you saw it right away. Guys were listening and paying attention to detail. When the team gets to Sochi there's no time for adjustment. Guys have to be ready to play the right way and right away."
- And here's Babcock on goaltending, with Cole:
"I would say to you that the other countries had a better last three months of the season than our country did in net," he said Monday. "Let's watch the first three months of this season. One of these goalies will be real good. And one of these goalies will be hot going in, that everyone will know who's playing goal for Canada."
There's really no other way. Whatever changes Hockey Canada tries to make in the development system might not produce results at the elite level for 10 years or more. Luongo, Price, Smith, Crawford, Holtby. Three will make it ... unless it's someone else.
"Anybody," said Babcock. "There's lots of players that aren't here that probably might end up with an opportunity. Play good. I read or hear, 'Oh this guy feels snubbed.' So what? Do something about it. The great thing about life is you get to control what happens to you the majority of the time. Do something about it if you're not here."
Toronto Star:
- Via SI's Allan Muir, I love the fact that the Toronto Star's Damien Cox called Hockey Canada "cheap" for not ponying up $1 million in insurance to allow the players to skate. If Team Canada did pay that sum, what would people say? They'd blast the organization for not spending the $ on youth hockey or other programs.
Puck Daddy:
- Harrison Mooney found some spectacularly awkward Team USA mugshots, including some of Jimmy Howard and Danny DeKeyser;
- Nicholas J. Cotsonika took note of Babcock's ball-hockey drills, and they addressed the goaltending issue, too:
Babcock loves to pick other coaches' brains. He's constantly searching for new information. So he talked to two coaches who do this for a living.
As the coach of the Detroit Red Wings, he stayed local. He called the quarterbacks coach of the Detroit Lions, Todd Downing. NFL teams often run walkthroughs because they need to go over a lot while taking care of players' bodies. At the suggestion of Wings video man Keith McKittrick, who once worked for the Michigan State hockey program, he also called Michigan State men's basketball coach Tom Izzo. One of the secrets to Izzo's NCAA tournament success has been walkthroughs in hotel ballrooms. The Spartans outline courts on carpets with tape and go over plays, absorbing info quickly while saving energy amid the hubbub. Izzo has made six Final Fours and won a national title.
"He thinks that's why they get there," Babcock said.
So Team Canada issued uniform shoes, shorts, T-shirts and ball caps. The players wore gloves, carried sticks and batted around orange hockey balls. They didn't screw around. They didn't walk around, either, though this was supposed to be a walkthrough. Several players said the surface was a little slippery and they had to be careful when the whole point was to avoid injury. Forward Logan Couture even fell down.
"We didn't think there was going to be as much running as there ended up being," said winger Milan Lucic, who hadn't played ball hockey since 2007. "Mike wanted to make it a workmanlike day, and that's what it was."
Babcock deliberately selected the groups, lines and pairings to keep the media guessing and the players believing. (No, just because they ran alongside Sidney Crosby on Monday doesn't mean Chris Kunitz and Patrick Sharp will be his wingers in Sochi.)
He barked instructions as if this were a real practice, going over things like forechecking, penalty killing and line changes. The Canadians worked on their spacing and were more cognizant of it this way. Though they were running, they were moving far slower than they would have been on skates. They couldn't get carried away, either, trying to prove something.
One thing Babcock took away from Downing and Izzo: "Sometimes the intensity of practice gets so high physically that it's not as engaged mentally."
USA Hockey:
- The jerseys are...Unique.
That's all I can find that's fit to print, as they say.
Update: The Lansing State Journal's Chris Solari did speak with both Abdelkader prior to his trip to Team USA's camp:
"I'm just really excited and honored to be selected," Justin Abdelkader said last week while at MSU's Pro Camp. "Now, it's kind of the first step in that process to making the team."
Red Wings left wing Abdelkader and Buffalo Sabres goalie Miller will be two of 48 participants. USA Hockey will deterimine and submit a 25-man Olympics roster by Dec. 31. The 22nd Winter Olympiad run from Feb. 7-23 in Sochi, Russia.
The 26-year-old Muskegon native while at MSU attended the 2005 U.S. National Junior Team Evaluation Camp, then competed for Team USA and finished third at the 2007 World Junior Championships in Sweden. Abdelkader joined the U.S. team at the 2012 World Championships, getting a goal and three assists as the team finished seventh.
"It's just a great feeling — pride and honor to play for your country," Abdelkader said. "It's something special, and something that you can't simulate. You don't have that feeling until you finally put that 'USA' jersey on and represent your country against other players from around the world."
This orientation camp is more of a get-to-know-them opportunity for the players and USA Hockey staff. Grand Haven native and Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma will run the squad from the bench, and Dave Poile is Team USA's general manager. Decisions for which players will make the team predominantly will be based upon their early-season NHL performances.
"I just want to get off to a good start," Abdelkader said. "I just have to play the way I'm capable of playing, and hopefully they'll want a player who can play my type of game. I think I'm big, I can skate and I've played on the big ice before.
"We'll see. I've had some international experience, but there's a good crop of talented players. It's not going to be easy."
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Bought and sold for a pittance, I'll Have Another is a horse for the everyman
Fourteen months ago, he wasn't I'll Have Another. His name was "Cheetos." And he wasn't anything special.
On April 19, 2011, a 2 year-old with not much in the way of pedigree or prospects was sold for a mere $35,000 after trotting around for show at an auction in Ocala, Fla. How was he regarded? Well, he was horse No. 494 at that auction, and horse No. 495 sold for $55,000.
Back then, I'll Have Another was nothing more than the product of two horses named Flower Alley and Arch's Gal Edith. Although there was racing talent in his blood, you have to go back four generations in his lineage to find a stakes winner. The general manager of the house that auctioned him, Tom Ventura of Ocala Breeder Sales, says he doesn't even remember seeing the colt that day. The owner of the farm where I'll Have Another was taught to race, Barry Eisaman, describes him "a nice and likeable horse. … It wasn't like he was Shaquille O'Neal out there."
[Related: Jockey Mario Gutierrez's closes in on Triple Crown bid with I'll Have Another]
On June 9 at the Belmont Stakes, I'll Have Another will try to become the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years. If he does it, his current value of more than $2 million – from winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes – will skyrocket even more. Triple Crown winners, once retired, can command six figures per breeding and can breed more than 100 times a year. I'll Have Another, sold last year for $35,000, could be worth tens of millions as soon as next year.
It seems the horse was only slightly less of a bargain than the purchase of Manhattan for the equivalent of $24 in 1626.
But there is more to the I'll Have Another story, and the most wonderful part isn't how he came out of nowhere in his Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes wins, but how he did it in real life. He was originally purchased for $11,000 off a Kentucky farm as a yearling in 2010 not by a superagent in seersucker, but by an exercise rider from Mexico whose father started his life in the United States selling tacos off the back of his truck.
The man's name is Victor Davila, a 34-year-old employee of Eisaman Equine in central Florida who drives a beat-up Toyota pickup and, in his boss's words, "hasn't missed a day of work in 10 years." Davila's oldest daughter, Bianca, saw the colt's bright coat and started calling him Cheetos.
"Everyone thinks the horse business is made up of super rich, super wealthy blue bloods, and that they dominate the races," says Ventura. "But there's also stories like this."
[Pat Forde: I'll Have Another tested in the hardest three weeks in sports]
If you look at the video of I'll Have Another's auction and workout – scary, by the way, how much it all looks like the NFL combine – not a whole lot stands out. Horse experts have a lovely term called "way of going," which describes how a horse moves. Cheetos had "a smooth way of moving," says Ventura, who has posted the video at obssales.com. "I would call him very efficient. Not up and down up and down. A nice stride."
But that was pretty much it. Two year-olds like him can go for six figures or more, but No. 494 went for about the cost of a cheap horse trailer. Really the only person who saw much in the horse in the beginning was Davila, who loved the yearling's sense of balance in 2010 and went a little over his meager $10,000 target price to get him. Eisaman jokingly calls Davila "semi-cheap," so spending an extra grand of his own money was a sign of something. But if the horse had any legitimate shot of being a Triple Crown threat back then, Davila would have been way out of the bidding.
His goal in buying the yearling two years ago was not to find a Triple Crown thoroughbred, but merely to sell him at a profit. Eisaman and Davila (who has only a handful of colts of his own) are in the "pinhooking" business, which means they flip horses like houses. There's no interest in keeping a colt. In fact, not selling a horse would be a failure.
Perhaps an apt comparison is New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady: a late-round draft pick that wasn't expected to do much but found greatness. To say Davila should have kept I'll Have Another is a bit like saying Brady's high school coach should have become his agent and remained his coach throughout his NFL career. Looking back, Davila's sale of I'll Have Another for $35,000 seems like a colossal blunder, but he was happy to make more than three times his investment.
And he did that by teaching the horse to run.
"We start from scratch," says Eisaman, who breeds and sells hundreds of horses every year. "It's a bit like a track athlete that's a couch potato."
It's a painstaking process, beginning with a saddle, which the horse isn't used to, then a bridle, then eventually the rider lies on top of the horse on his belly to get the animal used to walking with weight on its back. All of this takes time. So does loading the horse into a starting gate, making sure he knows there's nothing to be afraid of. Davila did all this without knowing he had a historic horse in his midst. He only did it because it was his job.
"I never imagined him in the Derby," says Davila. "He was a good horse, but not for the Derby."
The big moment comes when a horse starts to run with others. Sometimes a horse won't like being behind because it gets dirt kicked in its face. Sometimes a horse won't like being in the lead because it can be disorienting. I'll Have Another – Cheetos at the time – was fine with both. And that's when the hints of greatness began to emerge.
"It's when you put him in company," Davila says. "I did it three or four times, and he was happy. He gave more than you asked him. When you ask him, he goes. It's gotta be a special horse to do that. Not every horse has that pattern."
And yet there was no way to measure the horse's heart in a race. There was no way to know how he would respond in a field. There was no way of knowing what would happen to the horse's way of going.
Davila would part with the horse without finding out. To him, I'll Have Another was just the horse his daughter called Cheetos.
So how did this horse with only traces of brilliance turn into a star? We don't really know for sure. It could be a great jockey with a sense of when to let him go, a top trainer at the elite level or just genetics.
Or, since this is horse racing in the modern era, it could be something more nefarious. After all, the current trainers don't have a completely clean track record. I'll Have Another's trainer, Doug O'Neill, was recently suspended by the California Racing Board for giving another of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture. O'Neill has denied the charge.
But Davila's story, so far as we know, is pristine. He couldn't afford the money to train and travel with I'll Have Another at the top level, anyway. These days, he's asked if he regrets selling a horse that could be worth tens of millions. "No," he says. "Not really." His business isn't a lottery. He can't afford to gamble. And if he could, he might have kept another horse, like the one he bought for $8,500 and sold for $100,000. That was in 2010 as well – the same year he sold I'll Have Another.
Davila's goals are to provide for his family and to become a U.S. citizen, something that should happen this year. His payment for I'll Have Another comes mostly in pride. When he watched the Derby at home a few weeks ago with Bianca, his younger daughter, his son and his wife, he was overwhelmed. "I can't describe it," he says. "It's something so special. You feel so happy you want to cry."
And that's what makes I'll Have Another so relatable. He's not a horse of supposed destiny, like Fusaichi Pegasus or Big Brown. He's not even Bodemeister. There were hundreds of horses sold in Ocala that day last April. I'll Have Another was, well, just another. In a sport of kings, he was a horse for the everyman – bought for a pittance, bred by a foreigner, and blessed with great training and a knack for winning. Now the whole world knows his name, and a little-known exercise rider from Mexico will be at Belmont Park to cheer him on.
But Victor Davila and his family won't be cheering for I'll Have Another.
They'll be cheering for Cheetos.
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Rehabilitation Treatment Variables that Affect Outcome After Brain Injury
David W. Ellis George Spivack Claire M. Spettell
Two studies were performed to examine the effects of temporal factors in rehabilitation and the effects of intensity of rehabilitation treatment on outcomes following traumatic brain injury. First, the effects of length of acute hospitalization on social disability and length of rehabilitation stay (LOS) were examined. Although severity of brain injury had the greatest effect on the patient's outcome, length of acute hospitalization also had a significant effect on social disability and length of rehabilitation. The second study examined the effects of length and intensity of rehabilitation on cognitive and physical outcomes. There was a significant interaction between length of stay and treatment outcome, with the long LOS group starting out more disabled at admission but improving to the same level as the short LOS group at discharge. A similar pattern of results was found for the effects of intensity of rehabilitation on physical outcomes. However, when cognitive outcomes were studied, a different pattern emerged. For short LOS patients, highand low-intensity treatment groups improved equally, but for the long LOS patients those treated more intensely made significantly more progress. The theoretical and clinical significance of these results is discussed.
This chapter discusses various factors that may affect treatment outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The conclusions are based on a review of the literature as well as two studies that we have done


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State versus Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya
James Habyarimana, William Jack
Chapter in NBER book African Successes, Volume I: Government and Institutions (2016), Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, editors (p. 307 - 330)
This paper compares the relative impact of two road safety interventions in the Kenyan minibus or matatu sector: a top down set of regulatory requirements known as the Michuki Rules and a consumer empowerment intervention. We use very detailed insurance claims data on three classes of vehicles to implement a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to measure the impact of the Michuki Rules. Despite strong political leadership and dedicated resources, we find no statistically significant effect of the Michuki Rules on accident rates. In contrast, the consumer empowerment intervention that didn't rely on third party enforcement has very large and significant effects on accident rates. Our intent-to-treat estimates suggest reductions in accident rates of at least 50%. Our analysis suggests that in institutionally weak environments, innovative consumer-driven solutions might provide an alternative solution to low quality service provision.This chapter is no longer available for free download, since the book has been published. To obtain a copy, you must buy the book.
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I went on a baking spree this weekend. I needed a distraction, since my poor baby of a computer underwent a face-lift and consequently lost internet connection. Have you ever tried not going on the internet? It's almost impossible! And I was going out of my mind. So I decided to bake. And watch Casablanca. Of course, right? What goes better with old movies than lemon?
Lemon Sunbursts
from Pilsbury
For the Crust:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 cup margarine/butter, softened
For the Filling:
4 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup lemon juice
For the Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Now, in a large bowl, mix together all the crust ingredients. They'll be pretty crumbly, which is perfect!
Now you'll press that into an un-greased 9 by 13 pan, like so:
Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the top starts to turn a lovely golden color. Don't over-bake though! You'll have to put it back in the oven later.
While that's cookin', start on the filling. Mix all the filling ingredients except the lemon juice.
Once it's nice and well-blended, add the lemon juice.
Now, pour that on top of the still-warm crust and bake for an additional 25 to 30 minutes. The top will be a nice golden brown.
Let it cool for about an hour before frosting. To make the frosting, mix the powdered sugar and lemon juice together and pour it over the cooled lemon bars.
Cut them into bars and try not to eat all of them in one sitting! (Trust me, it's hard! My willpower almost wasn't strong enough!) Hope you had a great weekend! Only 22 days until Christmas!


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Some of Baylor's primary offensive weapons likely will be out of the lineup this week during the Bears' game against FCS opponent Northwestern State.
Baylor coach Art Briles told the Waco Tribune-Herald at practice Wednesday that receivers Antwan Goodley and Corey Coleman and backup running back likely will not play and that quarterback Devin Chafin against the Demons.
Quarterback Bryce Petty will have to show much improvement over the next several days to be ready for Saturday's game, Briles said. Petty sustained two fractured transverse processes in his back in the Bears' victory Sunday over SMU and played only the first half.
Petty has been undergoing rehabilitation on his injured back and has not returned to practice, Briles said.
"We'll see how it comes around in the next day or two, but it's going to have to be pretty dramatic," Briles told the Tribune-Herald about Petty's need for improvement to return to the lineup Saturday night.
Backup quarterback Seth Russell would replace Petty if he can't is out Saturday. Briles said earlier this week he's looking for more progress from Russell after the sophomore from Garland struggled in his playing time against the Mustangs.
"After grading it, just O.K. for him," Briles said about Russell's effort, which including 124 passing yards and a touchdown and 46 rushing yards. "He can do a lot better and be a lot more urgent with his demeanor and his handling of the football. He's a guy that can spark and make plays for you."
Baylor's backups should be in good shape against the Demons, who were blistered for 418 yards, 223 yards rushing and ranked 76th among the 103 FCS teams in pass defense efficiency after Northwestern's season-opening 34-27 loss to Missouri State last week.
It would behoove Briles to take his time getting his injured players back into the lineup with a soft non-conference schedule that also will include a trip to Buffalo in a Friday night national televised games Sept. 12 and a Big 12 opener at Iowa State.
While sitting out games in September might crimp Petty's hopes for a Heisman Trophy, it will certainly help his team to be healthy in October and November.


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Date: 05/23/99 at 01:09:50 From: Robert Ziering Subject: Line of sight How far is the horizon?
Date: 05/26/99 at 14:49:59 From: Doctor Fwg Subject: Re: Line of sight Dear Robert, Thanks for sending this interesting question. However, it is difficult to answer exactly because certain conditions must be specified, whether they happen to exist or not. For example, one estimate of the distance to "the" horizon can be made if one assumes a perfectly smooth surface for the earth and an observer looking toward the horizon with his/her eye level exactly 5.28 ft (or "h") above the earth's surface (this height is arbitrary but the value used for it will affect the final answer). The nearest approximation of this condition might exist for a short person standing in a row boat floating in the middle of a very large (calm) lake. If you now assume that the distance from the center of the earth to the earth's "perfectly spherical" surface is exactly 4,000 mi (or "R") and that the distance from the center of the earth to the short person's eye level is 4,000 mi plus 5.28 ft (or R + h), you can estimate the distance to the horizon (assuming no other problems, such as refraction or bending of light coming from the horizon to the observer's eyes). Let "s" stand for the actual distance between the observer's eyes and the horizon. You also need to assume that rays of light coming from the horizon to the observer's eyes make a right angle with the earth's radius vector at the horizon. In other words, the light rays coming from the horizon point to the observer's eyes are tangent to the earth's "surface" at the horizon point. You may ignore the actual curvature of the earth and assume that "s" and the actual distance between the observer and the horizon, along the curved part of the earth's surface, are equivalent. From these conditions and approximations, you can draw a "right" triangle and then use the Theorem of Pythagoras to estimate the distance to the apparent horizon. Using the Theorem of Pythagoras and the conditions above, you can write: R^2 + s^2 = (R+h)^2 = R^2 + 2Rh + h^2, or s^2 = 2Rh + h^2 = h(2R + h). But 2R is much greater than h, so: s^2 = h(2R), approximately, or s^2 = 2Rh. Therefore: s = Sqrt(2Rh) = Sqrt[2(4000 mi)(5.28 ft/5280 ft/mi)] = Sqrt[(8000)(0.001)] = Sqrt[8] = Sqrt[(4)(2)] = 2[Sqrt(2)] = 2(1.414) = 2.8 mi. So, for these conditions, the distance to the horizon is about 2.8 mi. I hope this has been helpful. With best wishes, - Doctor Fwg, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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A police officer was left stumped in Illinois after pulling over a woman driving a Lincoln Tree Car, and by 'tree car', we actually mean a Town Car with a 15-foot tree lodged in its engine compartment.
"A few weeks ago, a Roselle police officer saw a car driving southbound on Roselle Road with a 15-foot tree embedded in the front grill of the car," said the Roselle Police Department in a statement. "After stopping the driver, he also noticed the airbags had been deployed (apparently from hitting the tree)."
Deputy Chief Roman Tarchala told the Daily Herald that they had received a call reporting the 2004 Lincoln Town Car driving south on Roselle Road from Irving Park Road at around 11:10 p.m. January 23.
"It's not every day you see a car driving around with a large tree planted in the grille," Tarchala told the newspaper. "She was pretty easy to locate."
The woman behind the wheel, Maryann Christy, 54, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol. She later told police that she did not remember when or where she had struck the tree.
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(Three small red ants – Maggie, Alice, and Emma – sleep in an ant whole. Music plays for a few seconds: New York, New York by Frank Sinatra. Pause music – Louise rings a bell)
LOUISE: (walking back and forth ringing the bell) Wake up everybody! It's time to work. It's a beautiful day for gathering food!.
(Maggie, Alice, and Emma open their eyes and stand up)
MAGGIE: Good morning sisters!.
ALICE: We have a lot of things to do, so let's get to work!.
EMMA: I'll stay home to clean the house and cook for you.
LOUISE: Good idea!. See you later.
(Louise, Maggie, and Alice wave good-bye to Emma and get out of the ant hole)
EMMA: Bye, don't come too late or the soup will get cold!.
LOUISE, MAGGIE, AND ALICE: We won't. Bye sister.
(Louise, Maggie, and Alice start to walk away)
LOUISE: We all should help to gather food to survive this coming winter.
MAGGIE: There's a rumour that the winter will be harsh, and our population keeps growing and growing.
ALICE: We need all the help we can get!.
LOUISE: Fortunately, we are hardworkers!.
(They see Mary, Carrie, and Berry lying under a tree)
LOUISE: Mary, Carrie, Berry!.
(Mary, Carrie and Berry stand)
MARY, CARRIE, AND BERRY: You scared us, Louise!.
MARY: Yeah. What is it with you?.
LOUISE: What are you doing here taking a nap?. You're supposed to be working!.
CARRIE: I don't have to work. I'm the queen's daughter.
BERRY: Me too!. Besides, I'm not working under this hot sun. No way!.
LOUISE: We are all the queen's daughters!.
MARY: Even if that's true, don't count on me, either. Every year it's the same thing. You ring the bell, and we get out to gather food. I'ts so boring!. Besides, my makeup gets all ruined!.
CARRIE AND BERRY: And it's so expensive!.
MARY: I wanted to leave the ant whole, but my dad didn't let me go away!. I don't like to get all dirty!.
CARRIE AND BERRY: We get all dirty!.
MARY: So, Louise and company, please excuse us, we have to go.
LOUISE: Where do you think you're going?.
MARY, CARRIE, AND BERRY: We're going to the mall to get our manicure done!. Oh, We're so happy!.
MARY: We need to get distracted from all this drama!.
(Mary, Carrie, and Berry leave)
ALICE: They are so stuck up!.
MAGGIE: And lazy.
LOUISE: I am not going to stand here and watch how they get their free share of food. They need to learn the value of work.
ALICE: What are you going to do?.
LOUISE: I'll talk to their parents. Come on, let's get to work.
(They leave)
(Louise is having a meeting with Mary's, Carrie's, and Berry's parents. They are sitting around a table )
LOUISE: I'm sorry to bother you, but yesterday your daughters refused to work in the park gathering food and leaves. As you know, winter is almost here.
BERRY'S FATHER: Please, don't apologize. I already told Berry about the importance of working together for our own good, but unfortunately, she doesn't listen to me.
CARRIE'S MOTHER: I'm also having problems with Carrie. She doesn't want to do anything around the house. She just wants to go shopping. I don't know what to do!.
MARY'S FATHER: Mary wanted to enter a student exchange program in another ant hole, but I didn't agree. So now, she's angry at me.
BERRY'S FATHER: You have our support, Louise.
CARRIE'S MOTHER: How are we going to convince them about the importance of working together?.
LOUISE: In fact, they have no option. We are talking here about survival.
MARY'S FATHER: You're right. They must work just like we all do. Tomorrow morning they will join you and the rest of the ants. We give you our word!.
LOUISE: (She stands up) I knew I could count on you. Now, come with me, (they all stand up and follow her) I want to show you our food warehouse. We still need some…
(They leave)
(Louise, Maggie, Alice and some ants are working gathering food and leaves. Mary, Carrie, and Berry enter along with their parents)
LOUISE: I'm glad you're here. We have been waiting for you. There's a lot of work to do!. (to Mary). Mary, start gathering pieces of leaves, we will need many of them!.
MARY: (to her father) Father, please, I really don't want to. I wasn't born to work!. Is there something else I can do, besides working?.
MARY'S FATHER: Do what she's telling you to do. Now!.
MAGGIE: (to Mary) Mary, we really need your help.
ALICE: We can not do this alone.
LOUISE: Girls, we all have to be responsible and the results will be incredible. Just imagine all the fun we will have this coming winter!.
CARRIE: She's right, we'll need shelter and food.
BERRY: We will have all kinds of goodies…mmmm… good!. Come on, let's do our job and let's do it well!.
BERRY'S FATHER: Just remember girls, we are all working for our community.
MARY FATHER: We know it's not easy. It takes a lot of work, and compromise, too.
LOUISE: We are all in this together, and in the long run we will all be proud of ourselves!.
MARY, CARRIE, BERRY: Where should we start?.
LOUISE: This place is just right. It's full of tasty leaves!.
MARY, CARRIE, AND BERRY: (yelling) What are we waiting for. Let the music play and let's work hard!.
(Music plays: New York, New York by Frank Sinatra. The ants start to pick up tree leaves)
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Yesterday's post "A Measure of Kansas Senate Leadership" we correlated campaign contributions from the Senate Republican Leadership PAC to individual senator campaigns and how those individual senators voted for their leaders. Today we look at how those same individal senators most benefited from Committee Leadership assignments. (**First two years as an elected senator**)
Those voting for Morris and Vratil
- Pat Apple- Vice Chair Assessment & Tax, Chair Utilities
- Pete Brungardt- Chair Federal & State Affairs, Vice Chair Public Health & Welfare
- Jay Emler- Majority Leader, Chair Confirmation Oversight
- Julia Lynn- Vice Chair Commerce
- Carolyn McGinn- Chair Ways & Means, Vice Chair Natural Resources
- Bob Marshall- Vice Chair Transportation
- Tim Owens- Chair Judicial, Chair Reapportionment
- Roger Reitz- Vice Chair Federal & State Affairs, Chair Local Government
- Vicki Schmidt- Vice Chair Ethics, Chair Public Health & Welfare
- Jean Schodorf- Chair Education
- Mark Taddiken- Chair Agriculture
- Ruth Teichman- Vice Chair Agriculture
- Dwayne Umbarger- Vice Chair Reapportionment, Chair Transportation
- ** Terrie Huntington- Chair Ethics & Elections**
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- Steve Abrams
- Terry Bruce
- Mary Pilcher-Cook
- Les Donovan- Chair Assessment & Tax
- Dick Kelsey- Vice Chair Local Government
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- Mike Petersen- Vice Chair Utilities
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Greetings Everyone, As I sit here typing this the snow is gently falling outside and I am anxiously awaiting Monday to come for one reason only, our monthly Sons of Liberty Home Brew Club Meeting! That's right! This is the one Monday a month that you can actually look forward to and this one is even more special with our special guest speaker Annette May.
As some of you know Annette is deeply immersed in the craft beer and homebrewing culture and has been for over 20 years. She is both a BJCP judge and a Certified Cicerone® as well as an instructor in the Schoolcraft College Brewing & Distillation Technology Certificate Program, and works for the Cicerone Certification® program as an exam grader and exam proctor. Additionally she founded Know Beer LLC and is the events coordinator for Fermenta, Michigan Women's Craft Collective. In short she knows her stuff.
Annette will be sharing a small bit of her knowledge with us on Monday at Liberty Street Brewing Company at 7pm and will be speaking to us about some of the changes to the BJCP guidelines and what this means to us as brewers.
If you have a copy of the 2015 BJCP Guidelines please bring it with you for a reference. If you don't have it yet you can download it from http://www.bjcp.org/docs/2015_Guidelines_Beer.pdf. There are also mobile apps for download on both iOS and Android for your phone or tablet.
This meeting is open to anyone interested in attending so please share. All guests will need to bring a completed guest waiver with them to the meeting which is available on our website.
Looking forward to seeing you all there,
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Levy rejection is lesson on how schools suffer
Wed., Feb. 1, 2012
Get your yellow flier yet? If so, and if the scare language and the big numbers are giving you pause, when it comes to supporting your local schools, you might want to consider one more number: 1972.
Or, in the words of one old newspaper article: "the gloomy specter of 1972."
Forty years ago, voters in Spokane rejected three consecutive levies, leading to widespread cuts, school closures and layoffs. Meanwhile, the Mead School District was implementing draconian changes on the heels of two consecutive years of levy rejections: Cutting nearly a third of its teaching staff. Eliminating all electives and extracurricular activities. Going from six class periods a day to five.
These were not theoretical cuts. Not the easy trimming of administrative fat. Not the simple, corrective efficiencies a tax hater's dreams are made of.
"It was horrendous," said Cash Stone, a longtime teacher and wrestling coach at Mead High who's now retired. "I don't want anyone to experience what we went through."
To their credit, voters in the Mead and Spokane districts have not done that since. There has been the occasional levy failure – but those levies have been tightened, rerun and passed before they took effect on the budget. And there have been bond failures, affecting construction and maintenance.
But when it comes to the maintenance and operations levies, the property taxes that support about a quarter of local school budgets, we've been saying yes for decades. We've said yes so much that a lot of us no longer have any idea what happens when we say no.
In 1972, the Spokane school district tried to pass levies in February, April and November. Each barely failed – falling just short of the 60 percent majority that was then required. Nine elementary schools closed. Ten percent of teachers were laid off. Class offerings were reduced. Extracurricular activities were eliminated, then restored in a scaled-back form. An acrimonious conflict arose between the teachers union and the administration, planting the seeds for a battle that would play out for years and culminate in a teachers strike in 1979.
"It was a really big deal," said Mike Ormsby, the U.S. attorney for Eastern Washington. "A lot of programs were eliminated – enrichment programs" in art, music and other subjects.
Ormsby was a freshman at North Central when the levies failed and a sophomore when they took effect. He said that for high school students in their junior or senior years, the cuts were disruptive. Students transferred between schools to make sure they could get into the classes they needed, as individual class offerings were scaled back.
Things were worse in Mead. Levies failed in 1970 and 1971, helped along by the last-minute appearance of fliers containing misleading language, exaggerations and nonsense like "Help schools, vote no." Extracurricular activities were cut and stayed cut. Stone – a longtime fixture at Mead who was a technical adviser and extra in "Vision Quest" – remembers a standout wrestler named Dennis Trainor. Trainor, now the owner of Western States Construction, won the state title at 145 pounds as a junior. As a senior, "he and I were walking the halls," Stone said.
The Colbert school was closed. Fifty out of 168 teachers were sent packing. Electives went out the window. Students in advanced placement courses were suddenly – in the years right before college – no longer in advanced placement courses.
"Kids like Dennis Trainor – they didn't get their senior year back," Stone said. "He's just one example. There's plenty of others."
The lessons of 1972 settled in quickly. In 1973, voters all around the region voted overwhelmingly in favor of levies. In the intervening decades, levies have become a larger part of school budgets, as the state has continually shortchanged districts in its duty to educate its citizens.
The Mead levy failures in the 1970s led to cuts of not quite $500,000. Its current levy proposal of $20 million constitutes more than 26 percent of its budget. It would not – despite the all-caps claims of "NEW" or "EXCESS" taxes on the fliers of the critics – increase taxes. Even if this passes, school taxes in the Mead district are expected to go down: tax rates are rising, but home values are dropping, and the district expects to bring in slightly less than it has.
In Spokane, meanwhile, the current three-year, $73 million levy proposal would cover more than 23 percent of the budget. That's compared to cuts of 17 percent in 1972 – cuts that also were softened by a much larger reserve fund.
"I think today, the ramifications of a levy failure would probably be more dramatic," Ormsby said.
These levies – and several others around our region – replace expiring levies. They are "NEW" only in the strictest, most semantically argumentative sense of the word. They are "EXCESS" only in the Land of Nod, where craven self-interest dresses up as help for schools.
I've seen it argued that if we reject the levies, all that will happen is taxes will go down and schools will go on. Sure they will – after all, we've got to send the little nippers somewhere during the day.
Schools will go on. They will just be much, much worse. If we fail to recognize that, we'll give our kids the chance to live through the good old days of 1972 all over again.


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The dark variety of chocolate, far from being a health peril, is actually a nourishing and wholesome food for the body. According to the latest medical research studies, the health benefits of dark chocolate may truly boost human health and provide a variety of valuable health benefits.
Dark chocolate is enriched with many healthy compounds, medically known as flavonoids, that act as traditional curative remedies for treating various body ailments and offering various health benefits from dark chocolate.
Some of the many health benefits of dark chocolate are as follows:
-Blood Pressure: Dark chocolate is rich in minerals such as magnesium and copper. These minerals aid in regulating normal blood pressure and subsequently maintaining proper heartbeat levels.
-Stress: Eating a delicious piece of chocolate can possibly reduce stress levels; it works by stimulating the production of endorphins that may give rise to a happy feeling. In addition, the dark chocolate variety contains stimulants such as theobromine and caffeine, which are major stimulants.
-Blood Circulation: Eating dark chocolate not only relaxes the body, but also makes the blood vessels more flexible. It also boosts the functioning of the endothelial cells that line the blood cells. It also decreases the risk of developing innumerable cardiovascular diseases.
-Lowers Cholesterol Levels: Dark chocolate has been medically proven to reduce the bad cholesterol levels in the human body significantly, up to 10-12%.
-Boosting Immunity: The two kinds of flavonoids present in chocolates are mainly Catechins and Epicatechins. Dark chocolate has a high level of Catechins, which boosts the human body's immune system and possibly prevents major chronic ailments.
-Good for Anemia: The flavonoid compounds are useful in treating anemic patients as well as those having poor dietary habits.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded Thursday night to criticisms by NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, who contended a double standard exists when it comes to the league doling out punishments.
In comments to ESPN earlier Thursday, Smith specifically addressed the delayed discipline of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who has yet to be punished by Goodell after being arrested in March for allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated and while in the possession of prescription drugs and $29,000 in cash. Irsay was formally charged last Friday.
"The personal conduct policy applies to commissioners, owners, players, coaches," Goodell said at the New England Patriots' team facility. "It applies to all of us. We all have a responsibility to do things the right way. There are several players that we haven't taken any action on, either.
"We like to get the facts. We like to be thorough, and we like to understand them. Charges were just filed last week. I don't believe there's a credibility gap."
Smith pointed toward Goodell's swift and sometimes harsh action when dealing with troubled players in the past.
"The commissioner understands that there is a significant credibility gap that exists in the National Football League," Smith said. "What troubles our players is the speed and the deliberateness of the punishment that they have seen in the past when it comes to a player.
"There isn't the same speed or deliberate action when it comes to an owner, and that's a problem."
Goodell said the league has yet to collect all the facts on Irsay's case.
"You can judge us when we make our final determinations, which you undoubtedly will, and so will everybody else," he said. "That's fair. But don't make judgments until we've had an opportunity to do what's in the best interest of everyone, which is getting the facts. Everybody wants process. DeMaurice Smith talks about process all the time.
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Hi all,
Ok, I got my site up and running.. now I'd like to hear some tips from others... how do you attract new users to sign up if your site is basically new and without users? I might make a few "fake" accounts but I'm not sure about it. The other thing would be to ask some of my friends to register.... What else is there ?
My site is about one specific genre of music.... so my target is people who like that specific genre of music.
My user section is basically like myspace... Users can create profiles, fill in fields like "about me", "favorite stuff", manage buddylist, create photo gallery, etc....
There's another section, the "content" section, where I plan to put different articles about that kind of music.... info about artists, etc.... That content will eventually bring people from search engines to my site.
btw my site is http://tranceplanet.org and sample "user page" is http://tranceplanet.org/zoki
it's really basic site, matter of fact, nothing fancy yet... Focusing on putting more content in the begining.
Thanks in advance for any tips
You need to promote your site in as many ways and in as many places as possible. Are there other message boards, groups or bloggers that focus on this kind of music? Drop them a cordial line and link swap. When you comment on those pages, be sure to promote your site in your sig (with an active link, btw). All of this will positively affect your PageRank.
Make sure your site is pinging technorati and other aggregators so that your content gets indexed every time you post.
Yes, do tell your friends. Beg, bribe and threaten them to help get the site off the ground. Good content begets new users. Just because you build it does not mean anyone cares or will find you. You need a regular diet of interesting posts to attract new eyes a little at a time.
No, don't set up fake accounts. That's bogus. Better that your site starts off simply as just a blog of your own postings. If the posts are good, people will come. Don't forget: content is king.
And, finally, don't get discouraged. It takes time to build up a loyal following.
Good luck!
I have seen lots of posts
I have seen lots of posts about promoting. and I think this is not bad suggestions like post in related fourms with your site address in sig. But actually this is hard to do. SOme fourm dont allow you with such link in sig. and some will ban you . :( Even u can do that, as a single person (even u have 3-4 friends can help u) the amount of posts you can send are very limited,and ppl who can view them and click your link is more limited.... So the results is you spend long time to know a new fourm for promoting your site ,but the result is not so good.
However,if you never do such effort, there are fewer ppl wil view your site. :P
So what is the best and efficient way to promote your site?
Lets forget the commerical promotion way, that's just about how to spend money on google,yahoo..etc . lets just focus on personal site? non-profit,and especially i have no money spend on promotion?
How to get more ppl for my site? thinking.............
Content is king,thats right...maybe this is the key point?......But all ppl know the theory,but its till hard to carry it out...
Maybe we should learn that site which its only have one page, and devide this page into 100 or more parts...then link with those famous sites with high page rank. then ppl who search those famous site will direct to that page ,then it get more visit rate??
Content is royal.
In addition to self-promoting in one's interactions on other sites, you can tap into those same sites for content. If we assume that pure profits are not the motivation for creating a site (which I don't believe tranceplanet to be), then finding people of a like-mind would help in promoting your webspace.
As an example of this, you could ask someone on a different site to write a small editorial for your site. What better way of promotion than trading for promotion. Conversely (or complimentary) you could write content for another site. I know that I personally follow author links through to weblogs and the like after reading an article that held my interest.
A small note for tranceplanet: If I were you I would print up business card sized flyers and go to my local record stores. I am sure there is a wall or something like that for those exact things. Or maybe a college. Trance is awesome, I don't think you would have a problem hooking people.
A few suggestions
I don't want to offend you, but I suggest you work on developing your site's identity before you promote it. The reason for this is, when you do get visitor's to your site, and you will, you want them to remember it. Although I like the theme you are using, it's a generic Drupal theme; it's not a theme that is good for branding. And a place like Trance Planet needs its own identity for branding purposes.
Take a look at these sites. They all play trance music. (here, here, and here)
After you've given your site a unique identity, I would suggest that you get a couple of your friends to help you write a few articles a week on trance music, artists, club happenings, and trance news. Become an expert in this field.
Then get your site listed on G00gle news. GN may bring in up to a few hundred visitors to your site after a posting.
Another suggestion is to put Trance Planet on MySpace, preferably with the same unique identity that matches your site, and include your site's link. Whenever you post a new article on Trance Planet, post a summary of the article along with a link to the original on MySpace's bulletin system so the people on your friend's list will know to check out the new article on tranceplanet.org.
Yet another suggestion: Your site will be indexed on G00gle. I suggest you make the best of it. What I mean is, create a cool trance graphic that can be used as a desktop background and offer it for free download. You'll pull in many trance music lovers that way, and because your site is cool, has a unique identity, and offers not only something for free but interesting articles and a community as well, they are sure come back -- and tell their friends. :)
This all will, of course, take some hard work and time. But Trance Planet could one day be the 'in' place on the web for trance music lovers.
You're already on your way, cause Trance Planet is an awesome name to begin with.
Have a question
Have a question. How did you create this page? http://tranceplanet.org/zoki. I would like to create something like that and any advise will help. Also, how did you come up with Featured user?
Quick question
Thanks for the response. What are all the modules I need to create such a cool page? Can u please list them?
Great job! What module did
Great job! What module did you use for the gallery on the user profile?
Was it the Node Images
Was it the Node Images module that you used for the gallery on the user profile?
I love your user profiles
I love your user profiles omg. Can you please post more info on this please. Also can you post more on the image gallery for users? Love your site and I'm trying to make one for my friends and I. Your site inspires XD.
You don't need custom programming to show the buddy list. You can do that with a view.
My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
I'm using usernodes for the profiles and regular profile avatars... One doesn't mean you can't do the other. I don't know offhand how hard it would be to do a view with buddies and an image from the usernode... Should be possible, but I haven't tried it.
My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
can you share?
Can you share what you have to create http://tranceplanet.org/zoki ? I downloaded all the modules, but not sure what to do next. I am a newbie to drupal and trying to learn. If you can share the code or guide me with detailed instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.
Theme change
I see you've changed your theme. Your site is looking good.
Your profiles are pimped.
Your profiles are pimped. Share your knowledge with us noobs.
Don't worry...
Your profiles really aren't much different than mine other than the layout and I'm writing a tutorial for mine. He's just impatient. ;)
My site: http://shellmultimedia.com
cool work zoki
its an excellent piece of work....except the sql queries u mentioned..
where r u hosting ur site..and whats the hosting plan....
have u tried the advanced cache module..maybe it cld help in some ways for the queries.
another thing..u cld make the Recent Blog posts and other such things have a link..which says More...so people can see other posts...
u were asking about how to spread word..maybe u can link up with other websites...and have reciprocal ads with them
do keep in touch..:)
User Pages
I can only ask to. It looks
I can only ask to. It looks great and is everything I've been searchig for! Does something like this exist for Drupal 6?
He already answered that...
Unfortunately, most of the modules you need to make decent profiles aren't available in D6 yet. I'm advising anyone making a social networking site to stay on D5 for now. Will likely be a few months before D6 has enough contribs ported.
If you're using D5, I of course reccomend advanced profile. ;)
See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out life in the Coulee Region.


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Cribbs caught only two passes in 2008. His value on offense is as a rusher from the quarterback position. He carried the ball 29 times last year, third most on the Browns behind Jamal Lewis (279) and Jerome Harrison (34).
Cribbs, a standout kick returner, is likely to stay on offense almost exclusively if the Browns draft a safety. Cribbs said he is willing to play whatever position the Browns ask him to play.
FRANCHISE PLAYER: None.
TRANSITION PLAYER: None.
--OL Lennie Friedman missed all of 2008 with a shoulder injury, lost weight during his recovery and is unlikely to be re-signed.
--LB Kris Griffin has a long injury history and won't be back.
--CB Daven Holly is worth re-signing if the price is right. He is coming off major knee surgery and doesn't have much bargaining leverage.
--LB Willie McGinest is expected to retire.
--LB Shantee Orr made four tackles from scrimmage and six on special teams. He will not be back.
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS (not tendered)
--TE Brad Cieslak (ERFA rights terminated).
--DE Chase Pittman (not tendered as ERFA).
RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: None.
EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS FREE AGENTS: None.
--S Mike Adams: UFA; $4.1M/3 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--FB Charles Ali: ERFA; terms unknown.
--WR Syndric Steptoe: ERFA; terms unknown.
--LB Eric Barton: UFA Jets; $11.15M/4 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--LB David Bowens: FA Jets; $7.2M/4 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--RB Noah Herron: FA Jets; terms unknown.
--CB Corey Ivy: UFA Ravens; 1 yr, terms unknown.
--DT C.J. Mosley: UFA Jets; $5M/2 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--WR David Patten: FA Saints; 1 yr, terms unknown.
--CB Hank Poteat: UFA Jets; $745,000/1 yr.
--TE Robert Royal: FA Bills; $10M/3 yrs, $3M guaranteed.
--T/G John St. Clair: UFA Bears; $9M/3 yrs, $600,000 guaranteed.
--OT Floyd Womack: UFA Seahawks; terms unknown.
--CB Terry Cousin (released).
--CB Travis Daniels: UFA Chiefs; terms unknown.
--LB Andra Davis: UFA Broncos; $5M/2 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--TE Darnell Dinkins: UFA Saints; 1 yr, terms unknown.
--QB Ken Dorsey (released).
--P Mike Dragosavich (released).
--QB Bruce Gradkowski (released).
--S Sean Jones: UFA Eagles; $3M/1 yr, guarantees unknown.
--WR Joe Jurevicius (released).
--C/G Seth McKinney: UFA Bills; terms unknown.
--LB Antwan Peek (released/failed physical).
--PK Jason Reda (released).
--OT Kevin Shaffer (released).
--TE Kellen Winslow (traded Buccaneers).
--RB Jason Wright: UFA Cardinals; $2M/2 yrs, guarantees unknown.
--OT Eric Young (failed physical).
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06-03-2011 #11properBo Guest
while trying to redeem my 4 games I got a lot of errors.which resulted in the list of freebies being removed from my store view and no welcome back games downloaded. FML
06-03-2011 #12GrandpaHomer Guest
If you've already activated them (e.g. they've had the red basket icons on them) once you'll manage to get back to store go to your Download list and (re-)download them from there. Alternatively - Check in the account management under Service list ...
06-03-2011 #13properBo Guest
I'll be patient, it is a madhouse right now but unfortunately, I didn't get to activation or even adding to cart.atm i don't even have any game icons in welcome back to be red "basketed". all that's left is the red basket dynamic theme. I've gotta say, friday is a probably the worst time to bring back the store and for millions of ppl to dl 7 gig games.good luck watching any of those free movies, this weekend only!
Resolved: After logging out and back in a few times,"SCEA Promotion" did appear in my services list.from there it had an option to "select" which took me to the list of games in the store. Thanks for the help GH +rep


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BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Capital's Healthcare Financial Services (HFS) business announced today that it is the sole lender on a $10 million senior secured term loan for OraMetrix, Inc. This transaction refinances the company's previous $7.5 million multi-draw senior secured term loan facility and provides it with an additional $2.5 million. Based in Richardson, TX, OraMetrix produces SureSmile, a digital and robotic system for orthodontic treatment. The funds will be used for working capital and growth initiatives.
"The HFS Life Science Finance team proactively engaged with us and our investors to provide additional capital, defer principal repayments and extend the loan term to help accelerate growth initiatives," said Charles Abraham, CEO of OraMetrix. "We're pleased to expand our relationship with GE Capital and we appreciate its ongoing support."
"OraMetrix has performed well. Together with its supportive investors and GE financing, OraMetrix expects to build new growth opportunities over the next few years," said Brett Haring, senior managing director of HFS' Life Science Finance business. "This transaction exemplifies our ability to build strong relationships with our customers and deliver proactive financing solutions to support their expansions."
About OraMetrix, Inc.
Established in 1998, OraMetrix developed the SureSmile system, a technology that equips orthodontists with a diagnostic, treatment and monitoring tool to deliver customized orthodontic care. Since 2004, SureSmile has been used on 100,000 patients by over 400 orthodontists in the U.S., Australia and Canada. For more information, go to http://www.suresmile.com/.
About GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services
GE Capital's Healthcare Financial Services (HFS) business is one of the most active capital providers in the U.S. healthcare market, deploying approximately $9 billion in new commitments to customers via 200+ transactions in 2013; that adds up to more than $65 billion in financing over the past 10 years.
Customers across 45 healthcare sectors — including senior housing, hospitals, medical offices, outpatient services, pharmaceuticals and medical devices — look to HFS to finance acquisitions, refinance existing debt, support working capital needs and fund growth initiatives. With in-depth industry knowledge and expertise, the HFS team of professionals creates business and financial solutions tailored to meet the individual needs of its customers. For more information, visit gecapital.com/healthcare or follow company news via Twitter (http://twitter.com/GELendLease).
GE Capital offers consumers and businesses around the globe an array of financial products and services. For more information, visit www.gecapital.com or follow company news via Twitter (http://twitter.com/GECapital).
GE (NYSE:GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.


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