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Joelle Smith has always known she wanted to teach music. She started playing the piano when she was five years old and added the flute in fifth grade.
Smith was hired as the Director of Bands at East High School in Waterloo five years ago. At that time, only 29 students in the 4A school were in band. Now, there are almost 90.
Smith said it isn't easy to grow the program because it requires a big commitment from students.
"In band they have to be invested for four years. Everyday, every semester, and that's a lot of time and you have to be able to sell your program to those students," said Joelle Smith.
The band just wrapped up marching band season, which required students to meet before school, and is now into concert band. Students said Smith is a knowledgeable instructor who also makes band fun.
"We just love being around her. She's not only our band teacher, she's a second parent, a friend. We can go to her with anything," said student Lina Pierson.
Senior Lina Pierson said Smith inspired her to become a band instructor.
"She really helped me pick my career. Seeing what she does, it makes me really want to be a music teacher," said Pierson.
Joelle Smith said she knows not every student will pursue a career in music, but she hopes all her students leave with an appreciation for music.
"Your goal is to just make sure their experience in music in high school is the best, and they will always remember it," said Smith.
Besides nearly tripling membership, students and Smith said the quality of the band is up, too.
Smith said there's still a ways to go to compete with other 4A schools, but she's already choosing more challenging music. She believes the band is starting to hit all the right notes.
The band is preparing for a winter concert on Monday, December 9th at 8 p.m. It's free and open to the public at East High School.
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Caregivers provide services and assistance to individuals who are too ill or injured to care for themselves. Many times, that person is referred to as a "loved one" because he/she most often is a family member: spouse, parent, partner, child or sibling. However, the term "caregiver" is universal and includes anyone for whom a caregiver provides care, comfort, support and other services – directly or indirectly.
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These items were culled from the Black Women in America encyclopedia. This list is neither definitive nor exhaustive. It is intended to be snapshot of African American women's historical events.
1619 On August 20th three African women arrive with 17 African men in Jamestown, VA. They are perhaps the first Africans imported for labor.
1624 In Jamestown, VA Isabel, wife of Antoney gives birth to William the first Black child born in English North America.
1662 Virginia law establishes that a child born in the colony will be held bond or free according to the condition of their mother.
1746 Lucy Terry (Prince) composes the poem "Bars Fight," the earliest known poem by a black person in America.
1765 Jenny Slew files suit in Massachusetts colony and is awarded her freedom.
1767 Phillis Wheatley's first poem, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin," is published by the Newport Mercury.
1809 African Female Benevolence Society, Newport Rhode Island is founded.
1821 Two hundred working-class women in Philadelphia band together to for the Daughters of Africa mutual benefit society.
1827 African Dorcas Association is founded by black women in New York City to supply clothing to children in the African Free Schools.
1828 The Coloured Female Roman Catholic Beneficial Society of Washington, DC is founded.
1829 The Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Roman Catholic religious community of black women in the United States is established in Baltimore, MD with Elizabeth Lange, originally from Santo Domingo as mother superior.
1832 Maria Stewart becomes the first native-born U.S. woman to begin a public speaking career when she lectures before a "promiscuous" (male and female) audience in Boston's Franklin Hall, under the sponsorship of the African-American Society.
1836 Jarena Lee publishes The Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, a Colored Lady, the first autobiography by an American black woman.
1843 Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree van Wagener), a black woman who escaped from slavery, begins speaking for abolitionism.
1844 The first petition for the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference to license women to preach is defeated.
1845 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's first book of poems, Forest Leaves, is published.
1848 Benjamin Roberts, files the first school integration suit on behalf of his daughter Sarah Roberts. Sarah was denied admission to a neighborhood school because of race. In 1849 the Massachusetts state supreme court upheld the legality of segregation justifying it with the first recorded use of the "separate but equal" doctrine.
1849 Harriet Tubman escapes enslavement and returns 20 times to liberate others.
1850 Lucy Sessions earns a literary degree from Oberlin College, becoming the first black woman in the United States to receive a college degree.
1851 During her speech in Akron, Ohio, women's rights convention, Sojourner Truth challenges racial and gender hierarchies. In 1858, while speaking in Silver Lake, Indiana , Truth is forced to bare her breasts to prove her sexual identity.
1853 Mary Ann Shadd (Cary) becomes editor and financier of the Provincial Freeman, published in Windsor, Canada, she is the first black woman editor of a newspaper in North America.
1854 Elizabeth Jennings sues the Third Avenue Railroad Company, winning $225 in damages and a court ruling that "colored persons, if sober, well-behaved and free from disease" could ride the New York City horse cars without segregation.
1854 Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield sings for Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. She is the first black performers to perform before royalty.
1857 Elizabeth Thorn Scott-Flood opens what is probably the first colored school in Alameda County, California.
1859 In Philadelphia, Rebecca Cox Jackson founds the first black Shaker community.
1859 Harriet E. Wilson publishes Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There, an autobiographical novel about racism in the North before the Civil War. She is the first black American to publish a novel in English in the United States.
1862 Susan King Taylor, at fourteen, becomes the first African American army nurse in the United States.
1864 Rebecca Lee (Crumpler) becomes the first African American woman to graduate from a U.S. college with a medical degree and the first and only black woman to obtain the Doctress of Medicine degree from New England Female Medical College in Boston, MA.
1868 Elizabeth Keckley publishes her autobiography, Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House.
1869 Fanny Jackson (Coppin) is named principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, becoming the first black woman to head an institution for higher learning in the United States.
1872 Following her graduation from Howard University Law School, Charlotte E. Ray, using the initials C.E. to avoid discrimination against women, is admitted to the District of Columbia bar, thus becoming the first black woman lawyer in the United States.
1876 Harriet Purvis is the first African American woman to be elected vice president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1876 Mary Edmonia Lewis is the first black woman to gain recognition as a sculptress. She is the only black artist to exhibit in Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition.
1879 Graduating from the School of Nursing, New England Hospital for Woman and Children in Boston, Mary Eliza Mahoney becomes the first African American in the U.S. to receive a diploma in nursing.
1885 Sara E. Goode is the first black woman to receive a U.S. patent, for her "Folding Cabinet Bed."
1886 Louise "Lulu" Fleming becomes the first black woman to be commissioned for career missionary service by the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West.
1888 Sarah E. Gorham becomes the first woman missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church appointed to a foreign field.
1889 Maria Louise Baldwin becomes the first African American female principal in Massachusetts and the Northeast, supervising white faculty and a predominantly white student body at the Agassiz Grammar School in Cambridge.
1890 The Locust Street Settlement House is established in Hampton, Virginia, by Janie Porter Barrett; it s one of the first African American settlement houses.
1890 Ida Gray is the first African American woman to receive the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from University of Michigan.
1891 Minnie M. Geddings Cox becomes the first black postmistress of the United States.
1894 Julia A. J. Foote becomes the first female ordained deacon in the AME Zion Church.
1896 National Association of Colored Women's Clubs organized. Mary Church Terrell served as the first president.
1900 Otelia Cromwell becomes the first black woman to graduate from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
1902 Charlotte Hawkins Brown founds the Palmer Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina.
1903 The Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank opens in Richmond, Virginia, with Maggie Lena Walker a president, the first African American woman to direct a bank and probably the first U.S. woman to do so other than through inheritance from her husband.
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune establishes the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School, which becomes Bethune-Cookman College.
1907 Meta Vaux Warrick is the first black woman artist to receive a federal commission.
1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first black Greek letter organization for woman, is founded at Howard University.
1909 Nannie Helen Burroughs is founding president of the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, DC.
1913 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the second black Greek letter organization for women, is founded at Howard University.
1916 Frances Elliott Davis is the first African American nurse to enroll officially in the Red Cross nursing service.
1916 Rachel, a play by Angelina Grimke, is the first known play in the twentieth century written by a black American and presented onstage by black actors.
1917 Lucy Diggs Slow becomes the first black woman athletic champion, winning the women's singles title at the first national American Tennis Association championships in Baltimore, Maryland.
1919 Georgia Hill Robinson becomes the first African American policewoman in the United States, after passing the civil service exam in Los Angeles.
1920 The Universal African Black Cross Nurses, a female auxiliary of the UNIA, is organized.
1920 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, the third black Greek-letter organization for women, is founded at Howard University.
1921 The first black women to earn Ph.D. degrees in the United States are Georgiana R. Simpson, German, University of Chicago; Sadie Tanner Mossell (Alexander), economics, University of Pennsylvania; and Eva Dykes, English philology, Radcliffe College.
1922 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, is the fourth black Greek letter organization for women; it is the first black sorority established on a predominantly white campus, Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1922 Mary B. Talbert becomes the first woman to receive the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Spingarn Medal.
1922 Louise Evans (Briggs-Hall) is the first black woman admitted to the prestigious United Scenic Artists Association for costume, scenic, and lighting designers.
1922 Bessie Coleman, the first licensed African American aviator, gives her first exhibition on Long Island.
1923 Virginia Proctor Powell (Florence) becomes the first African American woman to receive professional training in librarianship.
1924 Mary Montgomery Booze becomes the first black woman elected to the Republican National Committee.
1925 Florence Mills is the first black woman to headline a Broadway show.
1926 Dr. May Edward Chinn becomes the first African American woman to graduate from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
1926 Violette N. Anderson becomes the first black woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1930 Nella Larsen is the first black woman to win a creative writing award from the Guggenheim Foundation.
1931 Jane Matilda Bolin is the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School.
1931 Katherine Dunham founds the Negro Dance Group in Chicago.
1932 Dorothy Porter is the first African American woman to earn an advanced degree in library science (MLS), from Columbia University.
1934 Ruth Winifred Howard becomes the first African American woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in psychology from University of Minnesota.
1935 Jessie Jarue Mark is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in botany (Iowa State University).
1936 Flemmie P. Kittrell is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition (Cornell University).
1937 Anna Johnson Julian becomes the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
1937 Zelda Jackson "Jackie" Ormes becomes the first nationally syndicated black woman cartoonist.
1938 Miriam Stubbs Thomas together with sixteen other black women forms a club to sponsor cultural events for their children. Jack and Jill of America is born.
1939 Mary T. Washington becomes the first African American female certified public accountant after graduating from Chicago's Northwestern University.
1940 Roger Arliner Young is the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology (University of Pennsylvania).
1941 Mary Lucinda Carwell Dawson founds the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh.
1941 Ruth Lloyd is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in anatomy (Western Reserve University).
1941 Merze Tate is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University.
1942 Charity Adams (Earley) is the first black woman to become a commissioned officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
1942 Margurite Thomas is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in geology (Catholic University).
1943 Anne Cooke receives a Ph.D. in theater from Yale University.
1946 The Links is founded in Philadelphia by Margaret Roselle Hawkins and Sarah Strickland Scott.
1946 Camilla Williams is the first black woman to perform with the New York City Opera.
1947 Marie M. Daly becomes the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.
1948 Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman Olympic champion when she wins the gold medal in the high jump and sets a new Olympic record.
1949 Marjorie Lee Brown (University of Michigan) and Evelyn Boyd Granville (Yale University) becomes the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.
1949 Eleanora Figaro becomes the first black woman to receive the papal honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks is the first black writer to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize, winning poetry award for Annie Allen, (1949).
1950 Attorney Edith Sampson is the first African American to be appointed as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
1950 Dr. Helen Octavia Dickens becomes the first African American woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons.
1951 Arie Taylor becomes the first black person to be a Women's Air Force classroom instructor.
1952 Charlotta Bass becomes the first black woman to be nominated for vice president of the United States by a major political party, when she runs on the Progressive Party ticket.
1954 Doris Evan McGinty earns a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Oxford. (England).
1955 Clotilde Dent Bowen becomes the U.S. Army's first black female physician to attain the rank of colonel.
1957 The Famous Ward Singers (Clara Ward, Marian Williams, and Henrietta Waddy) are the first gospel group to sing at the Newport Jazz Festival.
1960 Wilma Rudolph becomes the first U.S. woman ever to win three Olympic gold medals and earns the title "World's Fastest Woman."
1961 Margaret Burroughs, with her husband, Charles establishes the Ebony Museum of African American History in Chicago. This institution becomes the DuSable Museum of African American History.
1962 Edith S. Sampson becomes the first black woman judge in the United States.
1963 Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley are murdered when the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL is bombed.
1964 Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer, Anna Mae King, Unita Blackwell and others represent the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party in Atlantic City, NJ.
1964 Constance Baker Motley becomes the first black woman elected to the New York State Senate.
1964 The Supremes have their first number-one hit with "Where Did Our Love Go."
1965 Patricia Roberts Harris becomes the first black woman to head a U.S. embassy when she is appointed ambassador to Luxembourg.
1966 Barbara Charline Jordan becomes the first black woman in the Texas Senate.
1967 The founding convention of the National Welfare Rights Organization is held, with Johnnie Tillmon as chair, Etta Horn as first vice chair, Beulah Saunders as second vice chair, Edith Doering as secretary, and Marian Kidd as treasurer.
1968 Naomi Sims is the first black woman to appear on the cover of the Ladies Homes Journal.
1969 Eighteen year old Ruth White is the youngest woman and first African American to win a national fencing championship; she holds four titles.
1970 Cheryl Brown, Miss Iowa, becomes the first black woman to compete in the Miss America pageant.
1970 The Coalition of 100 Black Women is founded in New York.
1970 Toni Cade (Bambara) edits and publishes the pioneering collection of essays The Black Woman: An Anthology.
1971 Dr. Jane Cook Wright becomes the first woman president of the New York Cancer Society.
1972 Alma Thomas is the first African American woman to have an individual show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York Cit.
1972 Sociologist Joyce Ladner publishes Tomorrow's Tomorrow.
1973 Marian Wright Edelman founds the Children's Defense Fund to lobby for health, welfare and justice for children and their families.
1973 Cicely Tyson wins two Emmy awards for her performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman.
1975 Gloria Randle Scott becomes the first black woman to serve as national president of the Girls Scouts, USA.
1976 Elected mayor of Mayersville, Unita Blackwell becomes the first African American mayor in Mississippi.
1977 Azie Taylor Morton becomes the first and only black person to serve as U.S. treasurer.
1978 The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, the first anthology of black women's history, is edited by Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.
1979 The National Archives for Black Women's History and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum opened in Washington, DC.
1979 The Association of Black Women Historians is founded.
1979 Jenny Patrick is the first black woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
1979 The Association of Black Women Historians is founded. The ABWH sought to create a positive and affirming space for black women historians. The isolation from white women scholars and indifference to the issues of women from black male scholars impelled black women historians to craft a community of sisterhood.
1980 Mary Frances Berry is appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by President Jimmy Carter.
1981 The National Black Women's Health Project is founded under the leadership of Bylle Y. Avery.
1982 Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple, which wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1982 All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, a pioneering collection of essays in black women's studies, is edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott and Barbara Smith.
1983 Christine Darden is the first black woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering (George Washington University).
1984 Leontine T.C. Kelly ,the first black woman bishop of a major religious denomination in the United States, is elected head of the United Methodist Church in the San Francisco area.
1984 Octavia E. Butler wins two of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Hugo and the Nebula awards.
1985 Sherian Grace Cadoria is the first black woman promoted to brigadier general in the regular U.S. Army.
1986 The Oprah Winfrey Show goes national, making Oprah Winfrey the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated weekday talk show.
1987 Mae Jemison joins NASA. She is the first black woman astronaut.
1987 Johnetta Cole becomes president of Spelman College, the first black president of that institution.
1988 Barbara Clementine Harris of Boston is the first woman to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
1988 Lenora Fulani of the New Alliance Party is the first woman and first African American presidential candidate to get on the ballot in all fifty states.
1989 Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African American appointed as director of Soviet and East European Affairs on the National Security Council.
1990 Sister Cora Billings is installed as a pastor in Richmond, VA, becoming the first black nun to head a parish in the U.S.
1990 Sharon Pratt Dixon (Kelly) is elected mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first woman to be elected.
1991 Lynn Whitfield becomes the first African American woman awarded an Emmy for outstanding actress in a miniseries.
1992 Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate; she is also the first African American senator from the Democratic Party.
1993 Hazel Rollins O'Leary is sworn in as the secretary of energy, becoming the first woman and African American to hold this position.
1993 Dr. Joycelyn Elders becomes the first African American woman to serve as surgeon general.
1994 Beverly Harvard of Atlanta, GA, becomes the first African American woman to reach the rank of chief of police in a major U.S. city.
1995 Chelsi Pearl Smith of Texas becomes the first African American to win the Miss Universe pageant.
1997 Alexis Herman becomes the first African American to head the Labor Department.
1999 Radio One, founded by Cathy Liggins Hughes, becomes the first company headed by a black woman to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
2000 Venus Williams wins the singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first since Althea Gibson in 1957.
2000 Selected by Al Gore, Donna Brazille becomes the first African American woman to lead a national presidential campaign.
2000 Vashti Murphy McKenzie becomes the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
2001 Ruth J. Simmons is the eighteenth president of Brown University and is the first black woman to lead an Ivy League institution.
2002 Halle Berry becomes the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress, for her performance in Monster's Ball.
2003 Oprah Winfrey makes the Forbes magazine's "billionaires list". She is the first black woman to make the list.
2004 Laila Ali earns the IWBF light heavyweight title.
2008 Michelle Obama becomes the first African American woman to be the U.S. First


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Becoming a mother has led me to think/ponder/question several things. As a mom, I think about how I can be there for my son when he needs me and teach him values he will be able to relay upon when I am away from him. As an educator, I wonder how to go about teaching a toddler in a way that will nurture his unique, God given talents. As an individual, I question the ways I can better myself so that I will be the best role model I can to help my son become a productive, positive, and happy member of society.
I know that kids are like sponges. They model everything that their parents say or do and eventually that leads to decisions about how they will live their lives as they get older. When I think about my hopes for Grady, I wish for happiness, joy, independence, and a zest for life (among other things). Now that I realize how fast time does fly, I want to savor every minute that I have with him and focus on enjoying our times together as a family. In pointing myself in that direction, I have been trying to kick the habit of watching too much TV. It eats up that precious time we have together. As a SAHM, I have the good fortune of being able to spend so much time with my toddler day in and day out. This has challenged me to try and keep our days fun and entertaining for the both of us, while also allowing him time for independent play at his own pace. What better way is there to keep both Mommy and toddler alert and energized than by going outside? Being the avid reader I am, I picked up Rebecca P. Cohen's book, 15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids.
This book is a must-have if you are a mom that loves to be outdoors, or aspires to be. It challenges the reader to spend at least 15 minutes outside with your children each and every day. It is divided by seasons and contains useful tips, along with structured and unstructured activities to do during those times.
Ms. Cohen's book has inspired me to begin a challenge, along with my son, for the next 365 days. Beginning April 1, 2012 I pledge TO BE OUTSIDE FOR AT LEAST 15 MINUTES EACH DAY WITH MY TODDLER.
Why should we do this? Think of the long-term benefits! If you are outside playing, running, and having fun with your children, you are teaching them to naturally incorporate physical fitness into their everyday lives. You yourself will be taking the time to enjoy nature and all she has to offer. Children will learn to be inquisitive, creative, and aware of what is around them.
Why is that a challenge? The challenge is being ready to taste each season and embrace all types of weather. Trying to find the fun in the raindrops, wind, fog, slush, and sunlight. Allow your child to appreciate the day as it begins at sunrise, winds down at twilight, and goes to sleep with the stars.
So, why not join us? Throughout this next year, I will chronicle our time spent experiencing the outdoors each day on this blog. My goal is to incorporate educational activities, everyday routines that can be taken outdoors, special events, and the spontaneous moments that grow from being surrounded by nature.
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In our ongoing quest for absolute stability and the firm will to provide you always with the finest and most stable code and new languages we released today the first 1.53plus stable version (this version will be updated every week). This new version contains beside a few minor bugfixes three new languages: Macedonian, Estonian and Bosnian! Also we we have had some languages updated and completed. As usual updating to this new version is always recommended. Check out the change log and move along this way to the download .
LimeSurvey Nominated For OSS Award 'Les Trophées du Libre'!
We didn't see it coming - today we were notified by the organizers of the Trophées du Libre contest that we are nominated as one of the best three Open Source projects in the category 'Company Management'! Wohoo! We are really excited about this and feel honored, of course. The project leader will fly to Paris and present LimeSurvey in front of a jury consisting of several famous Open Source Specialists, the chairman of the Jury being founder of the Free Software Foundation, Georg C. F. Greve.
This is a great opportunity to present LimeSurvey to a huge audience since this contest is the biggest contest for Open Source Software with hundreds of projects and several nations applying. We are looking forward to this event and will keep you informed of the detailed results. Surely this wouldn't have been possible without the support of everyone contributing in the past - developers, translators, donators: thank you!
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The 24th of October 2007 is and will always be an important day for the LimeSurvey project: This day will be remembered as the date when LimeSurvey reached the mark of the 150.000th download. Since February 2003 the number of downloads grows constantly and so the LimeSurvey community gets bigger and bigger, growing more and more worldwide.
These days LimeSurvey is translated into more than 35 languages and has embraced users on every continent, which do successfully a countless number of surveys every day.
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J. Quick (Kings - G): Saves: 28, Save Pct.: .966
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ST. LOUIS -- Goals from unexpected sources put the Los Angeles Kings in position for another road triumph. Jonathan Quick -- no surprise there -- made those scores stand up.
Matt Greene scored his first career playoff goal short-handed late in the second period and rookie Slava Voynov also got his first of the playoffs as the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 in the opener of a Western Conference semifinal series Saturday night.
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"It's definitely a great feeling to be able to chip in and help out a little bit," Greene said. "But we have a lot of work to do."
Quick, who shut out the Blues twice in the regular season, made 28 saves and is 5-1 in the postseason with a 1.55 goals-against average. He was at his best in the first period, charging from the crease to stuff a backhander by B.J. Crombeen and also stopped a wraparound attempt by Patrik Berglund.
"It was a great win," Quick said. "We get to enjoy it for five minutes and then focus on Monday."
Game 2 is Monday night in St. Louis.
The Blues could be without defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, who didn't play in the third period after getting his head driven into the boards by Dwight King behind the St. Louis net on the penalty that led to the short-handed goal.
Coach Ken Hitchcock seemed to indicate Pietrangelo had concussion symptoms, but said he couldn't concern himself with that right now.
"I don't want to get into whether he's going to play or not play," Hitchcock said. "Everybody saw the hit. We all know what the injury is. If he's not in, then somebody else gets to jump up.
"I've got bigger issues than replacing Petro. We need much more commitment from our top players."
Dustin Penner added an empty-netter for the Kings, who were 3-0 on the road while taking down the President's Trophy-winning Vancouver Canucks in five games in the first round. Los Angeles is the eighth seed in the conference but won the season series 3-1.
"No one gave us a good chance against Vancouver, I don't think," forward Dustin Brown said. "I doubt very few people are giving us a chance against the Blues. It's up to us."
David Backes opened the scoring on a deflection in the first period for the Blues, the No. 2 seed in the West and the top remaining seed in the conference.
St. Louis also lost the opener of the first round in double-overtime against the Sharks, before recovering to win four straight. Hitchcock said play dropped off after the first period.
"We kind of took a rest and they stayed going and that's the result," Backes said. "We didn't get enough traffic after that, didn't win enough battles, and the result is we're digging out of another hole here."
Brian Elliott made 26 saves for the Blues, who had a franchise-record 30 home victories during the regular season. The Blues were handicapped in the third period by being on the penalty kill for six consecutive minutes, the first four a double-minor high sticking on T.J. Oshie followed by a delay of game on Kevin Shattenkirk for flipping the puck over the glass.
Brown scored two short-handed goals in the first round against the Canucks and set up the go-ahead goal with just over a minute left in the second period. Shattenkirk overskated the puck after Backes won the draw in the offensive zone, and Brown beat Shattenkirk to the net where Elliott made a tough save but left Greene with an easy tap-in.
Greene scored his first career playoff goal in 36 games and earned just his third point. He has 11 career goals in seven seasons.
Pietrangelo led all skaters with 16:26 of ice time the first two periods. He had a cut on his chin in the locker room before trainer Ray Barile escorted him away from reporters.
"It's a pretty good trade when their third line gets a penalty and our best player is out for the rest of the game," Backes said. "Hopefully he's back for the next one.
"He doesn't sit there and embellish and wait for the medic unit to come out, he's tough and he gets up and he skates off."
Both teams snapped lengthy droughts in the series in the first period.
Backes' deflection at 9:16 ended Quick's shutout streak of 1:05:38 against St. Louis, dating to Feb. 3 when the Blues won 1-0 on a goal by Jamie Langenbrunner. The Blues also scored first for the fourth time in six games in the postseason.
David Perron made contact halfway up the shaft on a wrist shot by Pietrangelo from the point, and Backes altered the course of the puck again that beat Quick between the legs.
Quick shut out the Blues twice in the regular season and allowed eight goals on 172 shots in first round.
Voynov tied it at 16:58 as the Kings capitalized on a giveaway by defenseman Barret Jackman, who lost a battle for the puck with Penner. Elliott couldn't cover the ground in time after Penner's cross-ice feed as Voynov, whose eight goals tied for the NHL lead among rookie defensemen, scored his first point of the playoffs.
Elliott and Jaroslav Halak each shut out the Kings in the regular season, and the goal ended a dry spell of 1:47:47 since Willie Mitchell scored Nov. 22 in a 3-2 victory at St. Louis.
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Most of the St. Louis Cardinals attended the game hours after beating the Milwaukee Brewers, with reliever Kyle McClellan showing up clad in a David Backes jersey. Shortstop Rafael Furcal and right fielder Carlos Beltran attended their first hockey game. ... The Kings have won six in a row on the road overall dating to last season.
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Lessons from Alaska on relationship-based care
Margaret Hannah describes herself as Scottish/ English. She has been married for over 20 years and has two teenage sons. She works in public health three days a week for NHS Fife, and spends the other two working days doing probono work for her husband's organisation, the International Futures Forum.
When Hannah travelled with three of her colleagues from NHS Fife to the Southcentral Foundation (SCF) healthcare system in Alaska earlier this year to hear firsthand about their patient-centred, relationship-based approach to primary care, she learned the importance of such introductions if we are to get to know the person behind the job title, understand their personal connection with their healthcare system and start building good quality human relationships.
According to the SCF, "good quality relationships equal healthy people." And it is worth listening to what they have to say. The healthcare system, which has been created, managed and owned by Alaskan Native people, is attracting international attention for its success. In ten years it achieved a reduction of more than 40 per cent in A&E usage, a 50 per cent drop in referrals to specialists, and a decrease in primary care visits by 20 per cent.
In June last year, a team from SCF visited NHS Scotland and NHS Fife and successfully bid for two days of their time. The board had already been using the International Futures Forum (IFF) Three Horizons framework as an aid for thinking about long-term systemic change, having recognised that the challenges the health service faces today are radically different from those that existed when the NHS was created over 60 years ago. During this process the SCF model was discussed as a local system of care to aspire to, and so they were "primed" to listen to what the Alaskans had to say, states Hannah.
"When we started to describe for ourselves the kind of health service that we wanted for the future it started to sound very different because it was driven by a set of values that currently are there but aren't expressed explicitly enough. The kind of values we are talking about are, in many ways, reflected in the Quality Strategy – compassion, person-centredness, the relationship, a human system. That healthcare fundamentally is a human activity, not one that is going to respond to a machine-like efficiency.
"So you can have a discipline around efficiency in using resource effectively but you can't keep squeezing people to do more without there being a human cost to that. What we are looking to do is something different and asking the humans in the system to be different, not just do things differently. Because if we are being more of ourselves and less in our role, we actually create a better healthy environment for ourselves and the patient we are serving."
Meeting the Alaskan team and learning about their values-based approach was a "transformative" experience, says Hannah. The friendships forged during that visit continued across the Atlantic, and this summer Hannah and her colleagues were invited to return the visit to experience SCF in practice.
The team, whose visit was funded through contributions from the IFF, the Health Foundation and Dialogix, also attended and presented at a two-day conference during their visit and were granted free places on the threeday Core Concepts training course that is given to all SCF staff.
The training course focuses on creating more intimate, trusting relationships, Hannah explains.
"Unless you have that trust in an organisation, in a healthcare organisation in particular, you can't instil that health-creating healing quality to the people you are serving. So it is very important, I think, to have that level of trust." It also "completely annihilates the hierarchy," she says, "because you are operating at a human level with people and you are valuing everybody's skills and their technical expertise is a given and they have extremely high standards of care." The four returned brimming with enthusiasm, and clearly moved by the experience – professionally and personally.
"If there is another lightbulb moment it is this complete collapse of the two," explains Hannah.
"You can't be an effective healthcare professional if you are not also very self-aware as a person. The two go together. You become more self-aware as a person when you are willing to be vulnerable and open to your colleagues. And that they too are skilled enough to recognise that what you are doing is also benefiting them. It is actually a very beautiful process to see how a culture can grow on the basis of this building trust and building quality relationships." In NHS Fife the first tentative steps to translate this into a Scottish context will be taken at Muiredge Surgery in Buckhaven. The practice, which is situated in a deprived part of Fife, has around 7,000 people on its list who are very heavy users of primary care, and gives out around 47,000 appointments each year.
Initially the surgery will consider how it can reshape the front end of the practice to make each contact more effective – reducing the number of patients that need to be seen by a doctor and creating more time for meaningful, outcome-orientated conversations with those who do.
"We have triage already in Scotland, triage happens all over the world, but their triage is special in that it is focused more towards the whole person rather than their one symptom," explains Dr Swapan Mukherjee, a GP from the Muiredge surgery, who was also part of the team from Fife that visited Alaska.
Like Hannah, Mukherjee was "very impressed" with what he saw in there – particularly the emphasis on mental, emotional and spiritual wellness as well as physical health – and is keen to discover how this can be translated to Scotland.
"We can't bring Alaska here – we have to change it to fit our needs, our traditions. So we have to make it Scottish," he says It is very early days, but Mukherjee is excited that his practice has been chosen as the pilot for this work in Fife and is keen to show that the Alaskan approach can also reap benefits in Scotland.
"We will prove to people that if you approach problems the way the Alaskans are doing we will create an environment where our customers will be happier and they will not need us as often as they do at the moment, which will then create a decrease in the demand, thereby making savings. And those savings can then be put back into the community to do other things." There are many things we can learn from the Alaskan experience, he says.
"One of the main things would be a change in attitude. There has to be a cultural change in that we have to stop moaning, we have to stop blaming, we have to be proactive and try to understand what is it that our patient or our clients or our customers really want." However, the starting point in Scotland will be different. In Alaska the existing infrastructure was so damaged it was decided the best option was to start again and build a new system from the ground up. In contrast, Scotland must seek to "re-design the plane whilst flying it".
"The Alaskan model was so obviously broken when they got started, agrees Hannah. "Nobody was happy with it. Everybody was frustrated." Whereas she says the Scottish health service has achieved a lot, highlighting the "great inroads" that have been made around waiting lists, HAI and patient safety in particular. However, while she notes that these achievements were backed by significant financial investment, she points out that we are no longer in that position.
"We are never going to have that massive growth of spend in the health service that we had in the last ten years. I think it is doubtful if it will ever happen again, actually. There is this notion that after 2016 things might pick up and by 2025 we will actually be raring ahead again – I think probably in our wildest dreams. The world will have moved on so far by then. What sort of economic system will we have in 2025? I don't think anybody knows now. So I don't think we can rely on money to sort this one out for ourselves." However, this approach is not about money, she says, pointing out that we are rich in another resource: people.
"I think our health service has a massive opportunity to make the next evolutionary step in healthcare for the population, recognising that it is not going to be through spending more money. So it is actually an aspiration rather than desperation. We are inspired by the idea that we could create an even better health service than the one we've got and it is not going to cost us more money. We recognise that more money is not the way to do this. We are going to have to do it within existing resource and mobilise a different kind of resource to make this happen and that different kind of resource is the quality of the relationship. That doesn't cost anything in money terms. In fact, if there is money involved it damages that relationship.
"…So the answer to our problem isn't more money. It is to recognise that we have huge assets with the people we have in this organisation and I am very, very excited about where we are now." Hannah's experience in Alaska helped her to realise that this is something very much within Scotland's grasp, she says.
"Two years ago I would have said no. I was really facing a bit of a wall myself. I couldn't make the sums add up. I could see that this was a totally unsustainable system that we had and we do, and I couldn't see a way through. But now I realise that the human potential in this organisation is pretty much infinite.
"We can't spend our way out of this problem, but we can learn our way out of it," she adds.
"But it is learning to have different kinds of conversations, learning to value the quality of relationships and building on that. Growing that will help us design a new system of care."


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Empty, empty, empty: There are hardly any bikes at the City Bike rack in Turtle Bay in Manhattan. Neighbors say if they want a ride, they have to keep on walking.
When we checked on Thursday, the rack on East 51st Street and First Avenue had only two bikes. And even if you wanted to hop on, one bike had a red light, indicating it's busted.
Some pictures from last week of racks in the area show very few bikes. A rack at East 48th Street and Third Avenue was almost empty, so a car was parked right in front of it. Ten blocks away, a rack on East 58th Street and Second Avenue had just one bike.
The system has about 6,000 bikes, 91,000 annual members, and 300,000 daily and weekly members.
More people joined after Gilt Groupe, a daily flash sale website, offered a discounted membership. It sold out in no time.
With more people joining, some current riders worry they may not get the wheels they want.
"It would just be a hassle to have the membership and have no bikes be there," said Alex Yarnell of Turtle Bay.
"I cannot plan it as a given transportation when I really need it because there may not be enough bikes," said Anne Drager, of the West Village.
So what's the problem? One theory: Some riders tell us that people take the bikes downtown to work in the morning and then don't ride back at night.
The city says replenishing the bikes is a daily challenge. Every day, three box trucks and nine smaller vehicles bring the bikes to empty stations in an effort to rebalance the system.
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The vacuum worked fine for a couple of months. Of course I had to replace one of the filters. After a while it began to make a loud sound and get clogged. I purchased a warranty, but could not get a replacement. I was given a credit in which I used.
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It has been the long-standing practice of the department to allow a claim for refund of sales tax paid for a three-year period following the payment. This practice is, in at least some cases, in conflict with the provisions of §39-26-703(2)(a) C.R.S., otherwise known as the 60-day rule. The department is in the process of evaluating in what circumstances the 60-day rule applies as well as what circumstances the rule in §39-26-703(2)(e) C.R.S., otherwise known as the three-year rule, applies.
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'Meat Glue' Turns Cheap Cuts Into a $25 Filet Mignon
Allow us to introduce you to a new ingredient messing with your dinner: Transglutaminase is an enzyme made by the fermentation of bacteria, and it enables industrial meat producers and purveyors to take cheap chunks of beef, "glue" them together, and create what looks like a pricey cut of meat. Unfortunately, this meat mishmash is not uncommon in the food service industry.
Here's how it works, according to Salon:
By liberally dusting meat pieces with transglutaminase powder, squishing them into filet mignon-shaped molds, adding a bit of pressure to bond the pieces and chilling them -- voila, four-bucks-a-pound stew meat looks like a $25-a-pound filet mignon!
The meat industry lobbying group says that meat treated with transglutaminase powder has it listed as an ingredient on the label, and is stamped with a "formed" or "reformed" sticker. However, since most expensive cuts of meat are sold in restaurants, the consumer never has the luxury to see this label.
Read More: What's Really In Your Steak? at Salon
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This has been worked over in various media lately.. it's not really an issue. If you're a paying a reasonable price for fillet mignon in a good restaurant there's no chance it's something else "reformed"
If you're paying 1.99/lb for mystery meat you might be getting what you pay for.
High end restaurants that are using transglutaminase are using it to do things like bond chicken skin or bacon to the outside of other delicious things and they're not only aware of the contamination risk surrounding its use but they're the ones that are most vocal about using it responsibly.
if you take chunks of cheap meat and use transglutaminase (TGA) to bind them, you'll get a cheap reformed meat
if you take chunks of an expensive meat, such as filet mignon, and use TGA to bind them, you'll get a much better product.
in no way can the industry take a cheap chunk of meat and transform it into a "pricey cut".
the whole idea behind using TGA is to use the meat chunks that are a by-product in the trimming process, in which the meat gets its rounded shape. lots of perfectly good meat are waisted or otherwise processed into cheaper products solely by the reason of getting a perfectly round filet mignon.
i pretty much perfer the industry to be more efficient and use meat wisely than to just get rid of such a highly nutritional food, in a world where so many have no meat (or anything, for that matter) to eat.
and please - TGA by no means is a NEW additive. It has GRAS status in the USA since 1999 and is approved by the USDA for use in meat products since 2001.
@cristaleo I'd much rather see those scraps used as they are than reformed into a 'steak'. There are plenty of dishes that can beautifully use small pieces of meat.
Ugh. Add this to the growing list of reasons why I'm going to become a vegetarian again.
@foodefafa ok, i get your point - but i should remember that most meat products are formed in some way (just think of a nugget or hamburguer, for instance).
would people be more willing to buy and use meat scraps or meat steaks? I don't know, but it seems that a steak is a more popular product.
@cristaleo - typically small scraps of meat (too small for anything else) are used to make hamburger. I don't see how this reformed stuff is any more efficient use of the animal.


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On American dinner tables, chicken is the most popular meat. But Consumer Reports' tests of more than 300 raw chicken breasts purchased at stores across the country found potentially harmful bacteria in nearly all the samples.
"We tested the chicken for six bacteria, including salmonella and campylobacter, which are common causes of food poisoning, and E. coli and enterococcus, which are typical measures of fecal Contamination," Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D. said.
More than half of the chicken breasts were tainted with E. coli and enterococcus.
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