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Kidney Stones in Children National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse What is a kidney stone? U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH A kidney stone is a solid piece of material that forms in a kidney when substances that are normally found in the urine become highly concentrated. A stone may stay in the kidney or travel down the urinary tract. Kidney stones vary in size. A small stone may pass out of the body causing little or no pain. A larger stone may get stuck along the urinary tract and can block the flow of urine, causing severe pain or blood that can be seen in the urine. Kidneys What is the urinary tract? The urinary tract is the body's drainage system for removing wastes and extra water. The urinary tract includes two kidneys, two ureters, a bladder, and a urethra. The kidneys are a pair of bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist and located below the ribs, one on each side of the spine, toward the middle of the back. Every minute, a person's kidneys filter about 3 ounces of blood, removing wastes and extra water. The wastes and extra water make up the 1 to 2 quarts of urine an adult produces each day. Children produce less urine each day; the amount produced depends on their age. The urine travels from the kidneys down two narrow tubes called the ureters. The urine is then stored in a balloonlike organ called the bladder. When the bladder empties, urine flows out of the body through a tube called the urethra at the bottom of the bladder. Bladder Ureters The kidneys remove wastes and extra water from the blood to form urine. Urine travels from the kidneys to the bladder through the ureters. Are kidney stones common in children? No exact information about the incidence of kidney stones in children is available, but many kidney specialists report seeing more children with this condition in recent years. While kidney stones are more common in adults, they do occur in infants, children, and teenagers from all races and ethnicities. What causes kidney stones in children? Kidney stones can form when substances in the urine—such as calcium, magnesium, oxalate, and phosphorous—become highly concentrated due to one or more causes: •� Defects in the urinary tract may block the flow of urine and create pools of urine. In stagnant urine, stone-forming substances tend to settle together into stones. Up to one-third of children who have stones have an anatomic abnormality in their urinary tract. •� Kidney stones may have a genetic cause. In other words, the tendency to form stones can run in families due to inherited factors. •� An unhealthy lifestyle may make children more likely to have kidney stones. For example, drinking too little water or drinking the wrong types of fluids, such as soft drinks or drinks with caffeine, may cause substances in the urine to become too concentrated. Similarly, too much sodium, or salt, in the diet may contribute to more chemicals in the urine, causing an increase in stone formation. Some doctors believe increases in obesity rates, less active lifestyles, and diets higher in salt may be causing more children to have kidney stones. •� Sometimes, a urinary tract infection can cause kidney stones to form. Some types of bacteria in the urinary tract break down urea—a waste product removed from the blood by the kidneys—into substances that form stones. 2� Kidney Stones in Children •� Some children have metabolic disorders that lead to kidney stones. Metabolism is the way the body uses digested food for energy, including the process of breaking down food, using food's nutrients in the body, and removing the wastes that remain. The most common metabolic disorder that causes kidney stones in children is hypercalciuria, which causes extra calcium to collect in the urine. Other more rare metabolic conditions involve problems breaking down oxalate, a substance made in the body and found in some foods. These conditions include hyperoxaluria, too much oxalate in the urine, and oxalosis, characterized by deposits of oxalate and calcium in the body's tissues. Another rare metabolic condition called cystinuria can cause kidney stones. Cystinuria is an excess of the amino acid cystine in the urine. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. What are the signs and symptoms of kidney stones in children? Children with kidney stones may have pain while urinating, see blood in the urine, or feel a sharp pain in the back or lower abdomen. The pain may last for a short or long time. Children may experience nausea and vomiting with the pain. However, children who have small stones that pass easily through the urinary tract may not have symptoms at all. What types of kidney stones occur in children? Four major types of kidney stones occur in children: •� Calcium stones are the most common type of kidney stone and occur in two major forms: calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. Calcium oxalate stones are more common. Calcium oxalate stone formation has various causes, which may include high calcium excretion, high oxalate excretion, or acidic urine. Calcium phosphate stones are caused by alkaline urine. •� Uric acid stones form when the urine is persistently acidic. A diet rich in purines—substances found in animal proteins such as meats, fish, and shellfish—may cause uric acid. If uric acid becomes concentrated in the urine, it can settle and form a stone by itself or along with calcium. •� Struvite stones result from kidney infections. Eliminating infected stones from the urinary tract and staying infectionfree can prevent more struvite stones. •� Cystine stones result from a genetic disorder that causes cystine to leak through the kidneys and into the urine in high concentration, forming crystals that tend to accumulate into stones. How are kidney stones in children diagnosed? The process of diagnosing any illness begins with consideration of the symptoms. Pain or bloody urine may be the first symptom. Urine, blood, and imaging tests will help determine whether symptoms are caused by a stone. Urine tests can be used to check for infection and for substances that form 3� Kidney Stones in Children stones. Blood tests can be used to check for biochemical problems that can lead to kidney stones. Various imaging techniques can be used to locate the stone: •� Ultrasound uses a device, called a transducer, that bounces safe, painless sound waves off organs to create an image of their structure. An abdominal ultrasound can create images of the entire urinary tract. The procedure is performed in a health care provider's office, outpatient center, or hospital by a specially trained technician, and the images are interpreted by a radiologist—a doctor who specializes in medical imaging; anesthesia is not needed. The images can show the location of any stones. This test does not expose children to radiation, unlike some other imaging tests. Although other tests are more useful in detecting very small stones or stones in the lower portion of the ureter, ultrasound is considered by many health care providers to be the best screening test to look for stones. •� Computerized tomography (CT) scans use a combination of x rays and computer technology to create threedimensional (3-D) images. A CT scan may include the injection of a special dye, called contrast medium. CT scans require the child to lie on a table that slides into a tunnel-shaped device where the x rays are taken. The procedure is performed in an outpatient center or hospital by an x-ray technician, and the images are interpreted by a radiologist; anesthesia is not needed. CT scans may be required to get an accurate stone count when children are being considered for urologic surgery. Because CT scans expose children to a moderate amount of radiation, health care providers try to reduce radiation exposure in children by avoiding repeated CT scans, restricting the area scanned as much as possible, and using the lowest radiation dose that will provide the needed diagnostic information. • X-ray machines use radiation to create images of the child's urinary tract. The images can be taken at an outpatient center or hospital by an x-ray technician, and the images are interpreted by a radiologist; anesthesia is not needed. The x rays are used to locate many kinds of stones. A conventional x ray is generally less informative than an ultrasound or CT scan, but it is less expensive and can be done more quickly than other imaging procedures. How are kidney stones in children treated? The treatment for a kidney stone usually depends on its size and what it is made of, as well as whether it is causing symptoms of pain or obstructing the urinary tract. Small stones usually pass through the urinary tract without treatment. Still, children will often require pain control and encouragement to drink lots of fluids to help move the stone along. Pain control may consist of oral or intravenous (IV) medication, depending on the duration and severity of the pain. IV fluids may be needed if the child becomes dehydrated from vomiting or an inability to drink. A child with a larger stone, or one that blocks urine flow and causes great pain, may need to be hospitalized for more urgent treatment. Hospital treatments may include the following: • Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL). A machine called a lithotripter is used by the doctor to crush the kidney stone. In SWL, the child lies on a table or, less commonly, in a tub of water above the 4 Kidney Stones in Children lithotripter. The lithotripter generates shock waves that pass through the child's body to break the kidney stone into smaller particles to pass more readily through the urinary tract. Children younger than age 12 may receive general anesthesia during the procedure. Older children usually receive an IV sedative and pain medication. • Removal of the stone with a ureteroscope. A ureteroscope is a long, tubelike instrument used to visualize the urinary tract. After the child receives a sedative, the doctor inserts the ureteroscope into the child's urethra and slides the scope through the bladder and into the ureter. Through the ureteroscope, which has a small basket attached to the end, the doctor may be able to see and remove the stone in the ureter. Kidney Ureter Ureter Stone Ureteroscope Stone Bladder Eye piece Ureteroscope Ureteroscopic stone removal • Lithotripsy with a ureteroscope. Another way to treat a kidney stone through a ureteroscope is to extend a flexible fiber through the scope up to the stone. The fiber is attached to a laser generator. Instead of shock waves, the fiber delivers a laser beam to break the stone into smaller pieces that can pass out of the body in the urine. The child may receive general anesthesia or IV sedation. • Percutaneous nephrolithotomy. In this procedure, a tube is inserted directly into the kidney through an incision in the child's back. Using a wire-thin viewing instrument called a nephroscope, the doctor locates and removes the stone. For large stones, an ultrasonic probe that acts as a lithotripter may be needed to deliver shock waves that break the stone into small pieces that can be removed more easily. Children receive general anesthesia for percutaneous nephrolithotomy. Often, children stay in the hospital for several days after the procedure and may have a small tube called a nephrostomy tube inserted through the skin into the kidney. The nephrostomy tube drains urine and any residual stone fragments from the kidney into a urine collection bag. The tube usually is left in the kidney for 2 or 3 days while the child remains in the hospital. Nephroscope Ultrasonic probe Percutaneous nephrolithotomy Kidney Nephrostomy tube Urine collection bag Nephrostomy tube 5 Kidney Stones in Children How are kidney stones in children prevented? To prevent kidney stones, health care providers and their patients must understand what is causing the stones to form. Especially in children with suspected metabolic abnormalities or with recurrent stones, a 24-hour urine collection is obtained to measure daily urine volume and to determine if any underlying mineral abnormality is making a child more likely to form stones. Based on the analysis of the collected urine, the treatment can be individualized to address a metabolic problem. In all circumstances, children should drink plenty of fluids to keep the urine diluted and flush away substances that could form kidney stones. Urine should be almost clear. Eating, Diet, and Nutrition Families may benefit from meeting with a dietitian to learn how dietary management can help in preventing stones. Depending on the underlying cause of the stone formation, medications may be necessary to prevent recurrent stones. Dietary changes and medications may be required for a long term or, quite often, for life. Some common changes include the following: •� Children who tend to make calcium oxalate stones or have hypercalciuria should eat a regular amount of dietary calcium and limit salt intake. A thiazide diuretic medication may be given to some children to reduce the amount of calcium leaking into the urine. •� Children who have large amounts of oxalate in the urine may need to limit foods high in oxalate, such as chocolate, peanut butter, and dark-colored soft drinks. •� Children who form uric acid or cystine stones may need extra potassium citrate or potassium carbonate in the form of a pill or liquid medication. Avoiding foods high in purines—such as meat, fish, and shellfish—may also help prevent uric acid stones. 6� Kidney Stones in Children Points to Remember •� A kidney stone is a solid piece of material that forms in a kidney when some substances that are normally found in the urine become highly concentrated. •� Kidney stones occur in infants, children, and teenagers from all races and ethnicities. •� Kidney stones in children are diagnosed using a combination of urine, blood, and imaging tests. •� The treatment for a kidney stone usually depends on its size and composition as well as whether it is causing symptoms of pain or obstructing the urinary tract. •� Small stones usually pass through the urinary tract without treatment. Still, children will often require pain control and encouragement to drink lots of fluids to help move the stone along. •� Children with larger stones, or stones that block urine flow and cause great pain, may need to be hospitalized for more urgent treatment. •� Hospital treatments may include shock wave lithotripsy (SWL), removal of the stone with a ureteroscope, lithotripsy with a ureteroscope, or percutaneous nephrolithotomy. � •� To prevent recurrent kidney stones, health care providers and their patients must understand what is causing the stones to form. •� In all circumstances, children should drink plenty of fluids to keep the urine diluted and flush away substances that could form kidney stones. Urine should be almost clear. 7� Kidney Stones in Children Hope through Research The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health, supports research aimed at better understanding and preventing kidney stones in children. Researchers supported by the NIDDK have identified three proteins that inhibit the formation of calcium oxalate stones. Conventional urine tests do not provide information about the presence or absence of these proteins. Developing a test for these proteins that can be used in the clinical setting will help health care providers identify children at risk for stone formation so they can manage that risk. Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research. For information about current studies, visit www.ClinicalTrials.gov. You may also find additional information about this topic by visiting MedlinePlus at www.medlineplus.gov. This publication may contain information about medications. When prepared, this publication included the most current information available. For updates or for questions about any medications, contact the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tollfree at 1–888–INFO–FDA (1–888–463–6332) or visit www.fda.gov. Consult your health care provider for more information. For More Information American Society of Pediatric Nephrology 3400 Research Forest Drive, Suite B–7 The Woodlands, TX 77381 Phone: 281–419–0052 Fax: 281–419–0082 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.aspneph.com American Kidney Fund 6110 Executive Boulevard, Suite 1010 Rockville, MD 20852 Phone: 1–800–638–8299 or 1–866–300–2900 Fax: 301–881–0898 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.kidneyfund.org National Kidney Foundation 30 East 33rd Street New York, NY 10016 Phone: 1–800–622–9010 or 212–889–2210 Fax: 212–689–9261 Internet: www.kidney.org Acknowledgments Publications produced by the Clearinghouse are carefully reviewed by both NIDDK scientists and outside experts. This publication was reviewed by the following members of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Clinical Affairs Committee: Michael Somers, M.D., Children's Hospital Boston; Deepa Chand, M.D., M.H.S.A., Akron Children's Hospital; John Foreman, M.D., Duke University; Jeffrey Fadrowski, M.D., M.H.S., The Johns Hopkins University; Kevin Meyers, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Greg Nelsen, M.S.S.W., University of Virginia Health System; Michelle Baum, M.D., Children's Hospital Boston; and Ann Guillot, M.D., University of Vermont. National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse 3 Information Way Bethesda, MD 20892–3580 Phone: 1–800–891–5390 TTY: 1–866–569–1162 Fax: 703–738–4929 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1987, the Clearinghouse provides information about diseases of the kidneys and urologic system to people with kidney and urologic disorders and to their families, health care professionals, and the public. The NKUDIC answers inquiries, develops and distributes publications, and works closely with professional and patient organizations and Government agencies to coordinate resources about kidney and urologic diseases. This publication is not copyrighted. The Clearinghouse encourages users of this publication to duplicate and distribute as many copies as desired. This publication is available at www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health NIH Publication No. 11–7383 September 2011 The NIDDK prints on recycled paper with bio-based ink.
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Well, that was quick.
The Eagles have decided to not to reduce the salary of defensive tackle Mike Patterson after his placement on the non-football illness list.
Patterson, who began the season on the non-football illness list after surgery to repair a tangle of blood vessels in his brain, had a provision in his contract that automatically reduces his pay for any week that he is on the NFI list. But the provision was implemented to protect the team in the event that Patterson couldn't play due to the brain condition.
Since returning to the field, Patterson contracted viral pneumonia, which unlike the brain condition arguably was connected to practicing and playing in the elements.
"After a day of reflection, the Eagles and [G.M.] Howie Roseman decided to treat Mike like the high-character player that he is," agent Peter Schaffer tells PFT. "They're doing it because they believe that players who have done what Mike has done for the franchise should be rewarded. They always had Mike's best interests at heart. So they renegotiated his contract to remove the provision that automatically dropped his pay."
Schaffer emphasized that the outcome reflects not animosity between himself, the Eagles, and Patterson, but the existence of a strong working relationship that allowed the parties to find a solution when it otherwise appeared that the team's hands were tied. The Eagles promptly sought and obtained league approval to revise the contract, allowing the Eagles to pay Patterson the extra $150,000 that otherwise would have been removed from his 2012 compensation over the final three weeks of the season.
It was the right thing to do, and it was wise for the parties to find a way to work it out. It's also a positive sign that the Eagles have the kind of flexibility under Roseman that would keep them from clinging to an unreasonable position simply because the franchise doesn't want to admit that perhaps there's a better path.

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Wabash Alumnus is Finalist for $200,000 Teaching Awardby Courtesy SUNY Geneseo • May 26, 2005 Share:
William R. Cook, Wabash Class of 1966, a Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo, is one of three finalists for Baylor University's 2006 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
The award winner, who will be announced in the spring of 2006, will receive $200,000 and $25,000 for the professor's home department. In addition, the winner will teach in residence during the fall 2006 or spring 2007 semester at Baylor, located in Waco, Texas.
"Obviously, you're excited for yourself, but you're also excited for the institution," said Cook. "When something like this happens at Geneseo, it ultimately is exciting for the institution."
Having a Geneseo faculty member nominated for such a prestigious award will make a big impact on continuing to attract excellent teachers to the college's faculty, he said.
"I want young faculty to come to Geneseo and to say, 'Whatever I want to do in my career, I can do at Geneseo,'" said Cook. "You can play in the big leagues at Geneseo, not just in terms of teaching but the recognition you get for being a teacher."
The Cherry finalists, all scholars/teachers, each will receive $15,000 and will present a series of lectures at Baylor during the fall. Each will present a Cherry Award Lecture on their home campuses during the upcoming academic year. The home department of the finalists also will receive $10,000 to foster the development of teaching skills.
The other two finalists are Anton E. Armstrong, Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., and Robert W. Brown, Institute Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
The award honors outstanding professors in the English-speaking world who are distinguished for their ability to communicate as classroom teachers. Nominees must have proven track records as extraordinary teachers with positive, inspiring and long-lasting effects on students, along with records of distinguished scholarship.
"It's nice to have a sort of external stamp of approval," Cook said of being named a finalist. "Every now and then, it helps to have that confirmed from the outside.
"Most people don't come up to you at the end of the semester and say it was a life-altering experience. Maybe it was, but you don't get that," he said.
Cook will spend three days at Baylor in October delivering public lectures, teaching courses and being interviewed.
One of his keys to success is listening to his students and paying attention to their interests, he said.
"You have to take seriously what they take seriously, and you have to let them know you take it seriously," he said.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Cook earned his bachelor's degree from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., and his master's degree and doctorate from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Concentrating on medieval history, he studied with well-known medievalist Brian Tierney and spent a year conducting his dissertation research in Oxford, Vienna and several cities in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1970, he joined Geneseo as an assistant professor of history. In 1984, at the age of 40, he was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor.
Cook has focused much of his research on St. Francis of Assisi and has published a short biography and a book about Italian paintings of St. Francis that are housed in the U.S. and a catalogue of all the paintings of Francis. He has published articles about medieval monasticism, Dante, "The Song of Roland," and the teaching of history and humanities. He is co-author with Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Ron Herzman of The Medieval World View, published by Oxford University Press. He also appeared on a Learning Channel documentary on Dante and a Hallmark documentary on St. Francis. Currently, he is working on two articles in the field of American history.
Recognized from the beginning of his career as a good teacher, he received the inaugural Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1974. In 1992, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named Cook New York state's Professor of the Year. In 2003, Cook and Herzman received the first annual CARA Award for excellence in the teaching of medieval studies from the Medieval Academy of America.
Cook has made an impact on the community in other ways, too. In 1998, he made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Congress. The morning after Election Day, he sent his substitute home and returned to the classroom, where he belongs. He also is a columnist for the Livingston County News and a member of the board of contributors of the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle.


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Embedding Apache Pluto
The Java Portlet Specification (originally created through JSR-168) provides a standard for developing portal components with the Java programming language. Although the specification was originally created with the intent of standardizing the API and execution environment of portals and portlets, developers are also leveraging the specification as a standard for developing Web application plugins. By implementing or embedding a portlet container within a Web application, developers allow their Web applications to be extended by third parties through the deployment of compliant portlets.
Apache Pluto, the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification, implements a portlet container that can be embedded easily within a portal or Web application. This article provides a comprehensive tutorial that explains how to embed the Pluto Portlet Container (version 1.1) into a Web application. It investigates the basic architecture of Portal Systems, provides an overview of Pluto's public API, and discusses two different integration techniques.
Portal System Components
Java Portlets provide content from disparate sources. This content is aggregated into a single presentation by the portal. Portlet developers wanting to create portlets, which are deployable within a compliant portal, implement interfaces defined by the Portlet API and adhere to the lifecycle restrictions defined by the Portlet Specification.
A Portlet Container manages the lifecycle and execution environment of Java Portlets. Portlet containers instantiate, initialize, and invoke portlets in a manner defined by the specification. By embedding a compliant portlet container within a portal or Web application, portlets can be used as an extension point of any Web applications.
The Pluto Portlet Container
The Apache Pluto Project implements an embeddable portlet container and other modules which are used to implement, test, and run it. The container has been implemented to provide a simple, lightweight implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.
Pluto's Architecture
The Pluto portlet container is implemented as a lightweight container. The container encapsulates various services used in the processing of requests, and leverages a domain model that represents portlet configuration information. In addition, the container is responsible for providing the execution environment specified by the portlet specification. This environment is provided primarily through the implementation of Portlet API interfaces.
Portlet Container Responsibilities
The container implementation within the Pluto Container fulfills requests through delegation a series of encapsulated components. The container is responsible for the lifecycle of these services, including their initialization, invocation, and destruction.
Each request received by the container includes a small amount of information concerning which portlet should be serviced in its current state. This information, encapsulated within the PortletWindow interface, is provided to the container along with the originating servlet request and response. It is the responsibility of the container to interpret this configuration information into an invocation plan and an environment in which it can be fulfilled.
Internal Container Components
To provide a clear separation of concerns, each of the functions required of the portlet container is serviced by an individual component. These components, integrated either directly or indirectly by the container, fulfill the requests requested of the portlet container.
- Portlet Invoker
The portlet invoker is responsible for dispatching portlet requests to the managed portlet instances. The portlet invoker utilizes the configuration information interpreted and provided by the container to determine which portlet is to be invoked. The invoker is responsible for invoking the proper service method of the portlet.
- PortletContextManager
The portlet context manager is responsibile for ensuring that only one instance of the PortletContext interface exists for each PortletApplication serviced by the container. Internal container services needing to retrieve a Portlet Context request it from the manager. The manager determines whether or not an existing context can be utilized and creates it if necessary.
- PorltetDescriptorRegistry and Descriptor Services
The descriptor service is used to read Web application and portlet application deployment descriptors. The service reads descriptors from their appropriate locations and converts them into a simple domain model that provides configuration information to the container.
The Portlet Container encapsulates the descriptor service within a registry to ensure that the reading of the descriptors is optimized and only performed when necessary. The descriptor registry is responsible for caching the descriptor information.
Note: Because the reading and writing of deployment descriptors is a common requirement of portal systems, containers, and utilities, the descriptor service and implementation utilized by Apache Pluto is implemented as a separate module that is a dependency of the container and can be leveraged outside of the container.
Pluto's Implementaion Descisions
A few key implementation decisions enable Apache Pluto to be easily embedded and deployed within any compliant servlet container. These decisions are critical to understanding the container, and may effect design decisions of the embedding Web application (or portal).
- Service Interfaces
All critical services within the Portlet Container are defined as interfaces. This allows embedding applications to provide their own implementations of the services, while also allowing Pluto to provide default implementations for many of the services.
An implementation of the org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerServices interface must be provided during the creation of a container instance. This interface defines the services that must be implemented by the embedding container. Additionally, the org.apache.pluto.OptionalPortletContainerServices interface defines services that may be provided by the embedding application. Each individual services is detailed below.
- Instance Container
The mechanism for interacting with a portlet container is the org.apache.pluto.PortletContainer interface. This interface defines methods for managing the container's lifecycle and for invoking portlets.
Instances of the PortletContainer interface are created through the org.apache.pluto.PortletContainerFactory. The factory is used to create instances so that application integrators are shielded from implementation decisions and changes to Pluto's implementation.
The decision to utilize an instance container versus a static invocation façade allows Pluto to support the creation of multiple containers within a single JVM while maintaining simplicity. The alternate approach (implemented in previous versions of Pluto) proved to add significant complextity to Pluto's API by requiring tracking of services and configuration information through ThreadLocal variables and multiple lookup mechanisms.
- Cross Context Dispatching
Pluto utilizes cross-context dispatching, as defined by the servlet specification as the mechanism for invoking portlets. Pluto dispatches portlet requests through an intermediate servlet that configures portlets and invokes them as necessary.
By leveraging this mechanism, Pluto is able to leverage the servlet container's implementation to manage the execution environment required by the servlet specification—a level of compatibility that is required by the portlet specification.
As a result of this decision, portlet applications are deployed as traditional Web applications through the servlet containers deployment mechanism—and in a seperate Web application context. The portlet container then is configured to provide dispatch requests to the appropriate context as required. Although this result may be confusing to one unfamiliar with the inner workings of the container, it is easily understood once one understands the implementation decision and thinks of a portlet as a view into an application.
One downside of this configuration is the requirement that portlet container libraries that are utilized within both the embedding application and portlet applications must be loaded within a common classpath which is shared by both Web applications.
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How often do you come across an article or a television news story that presents a poor person in a positive light? Or for that matter when do you read about or see a story on an unemployed individual or the challenges of a working class American whose salary is receding as the stock market soars?
Oh, yes every once in awhile there will be a hard luck formula piece of reporting about the plight of the economically left behind – but it's comparatively rare and is often presented in a pitying, patronizing tone.
In short, if you are not a member of the economically made, political or corporate elite, you generally don't appear in the news. You are voiceless, faceless. The reality is that you are not news; your existence is hardly worthy of note, with the obligatory exception of an occasional "gee it's tough to live like this" profile of a "welfare mom" or person unemployed and looking for work for three or four years.
Otherwise, in urban areas, the only regular stories you see about the poor is the knife and gun coverage of violence, particularly on weekends, particularly on local television news. These video accounts of weeping relatives, blood-stained crime scenes, and eyewitnesses only serve to reinforce stereotypes of the urban poor, particularly minorities. It's voyeuristic catnip for suburbanites and the well-to-do who gain comfort in their racial views being reinforced by tawdry and sensationalistic "news delivery systems."
Let's face it, corporate mainstream news doesn't – in general -- adequately or appropriately recognize those with low or no incomes as having a stake in society or anything to contribute in discussions of public policy. As far as economics is concerned, it appears that the only persons entitled to speak about financial policy options are those of the privileged class, and particularly those who have been enriched by the current system (including politicians). Add to that at the ever present class of "journalistic punditry," who if they are on national television (or major market local television stations) de facto belong to the entrenched wealthy.
Just look at unions. Some union members are well into the middle class, but even labor gets short shrift by the corporate mainstream media. Why? Many reasons, but one of the big ones is that the owners of news "machines" in America are generally not keen on unions. They cut into their media conglomerate profits. So why promote the union viewpoint?
But there's another key point to remember. News that relies on advertising for revenue and profit – which is almost all the news media (although Truthout/BuzzFlash are an exception because we accept no ads) – are shaped as conduits for advertisers to deliver to a defined market. And guess what? Poor and low income people don't have the money to make them a desirable advertising audience (with some exceptions) for big media. So why write articles about them in the corporate media?
They won't deliver advertisers, after all – and the well-off don't want to read about them for the most part. The poor, the unemployed, the working stiffs are best left under the carpet – out of plain sight.
The net result of all this lack of recognition of those who are not powerful and those who lack sufficient funds is to imply that they are worthless, not even worthy of news coverage, and certainly not to be considered as having opinions that can benefit the debate about the direction of our economy or participate in out political discourse.
As we mentioned, occasionally an article makes its way through the de facto news omission of stories about those without power or money. That happened on June 15, when the New York Times (NYT) posted a one page story, curiously in its business section, on "Faces of the Minimum Wage." Although it only included 7 photos of the underpaid, it did actually state some startling truths (except for Truthout/BuzzFlash readers who are familiar with them from our ongoing coverage) that are generally ignored in the corporate media:
Put simply, the recession took middle-class jobs, and the recovery has replaced them with low-income ones, a trend that has exacerbated income inequality. According to Labor Department data, about 1.7 million workers earned the minimum wage or less in 2007. By 2012, the total had surged to 3.6 million, with millions of others earning just a few cents or dollars more….
Combined with tax measures the administration has supported, Alan B. Krueger, the departing chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said that raising the minimum wage would undo "a lot of the rise in inequality we've seen over the last 20 years."…
But for now, it seems the minimum will stay where it is. Because of inflation, the minimum wage loses value over time if it is not bumped up. Accounting for inflation's effects, it is now worth less than in the 1960s and 70s. And, as the people pictured here can attest, getting by on it — whether the federal minimum or a state version, which can be somewhat higher — is getting harder.
So, in this rare NYT piece that reveals how those who have jobs that pay minimum wage are barely surviving, some of them on food stamps, we see just a glimpse of the economic reality hidden between the luxury car and jewelry ads in the NYT.
We have two economies: one that is surging with wealth for the top bracket – and one in which the minimum wage working person is just getting further behind economically, barely surviving.
This short but revealing article is like the NYT opening the shutter of a camera at such a fast speed, you can barely see the image being photographed.
After all, the people hurt by the reality of an economy that is only picking up for the already wealthy aren't able to buy from the advertisers who are the financial base of the NYT.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Shorts and Nothing Else
The summer months in Kentucky were spent in a variety of ways. Usual dress was shorts and...well nothing else. It was common to have the summer days interrupted by a photographer pulling a small horse, house to house, yard to yard, asking folks if they wanted their children's picture taken. Can you imagine the excitement that getting on a horse in the middle of the summer would produce. [Not that horses were anything special in the Bluegrass of Kentucky!]
The picture to the right shows my brother and me in such a pose. [I was 4 years and my brother was 6 years of age.] Danny was the name. A horse called Danny and us in the summer of 1955. We had just moved into our new house at 25 Vine Street. Our summer attire was spotless and our smiles expectant. My older brother Henry was a little more reserved, but he was sitting on the back edge of the saddle. My face certainly showed the excitement and joy that I was experiencing on Danny. Holding the reigns...ready to go...getty up! But where?
Snap, the picture was taken. Down we came. Back into the summer of 1955 and our new neighborhood. Only the picture remains.
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- AnonymousDecember 30, 2010 at 12:37 PM
I can see your grandsons faces in yours!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Jerry I have a pic of myself on that same pony, when we lived on Highland St., David Ray BurrusReplyDelete
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Although we had a short week with Dr. Martin Luther King Day Monday and a scheduled day off on Friday, things are beginning to heat up and take shape as to what issues will come to the top.
Committees are meeting and beginning to work issues.
An issue that has caught attention for possible work in a committee I am assigned to is possibly redefining where and how the Kansas Universal Service Funds (KUSF) will be used.
KUSF are a tax, 62 cents per phone line or cell phone per month, which is collected and then used to help provide phone service to rural areas where the cost of service would be prohibitive without subsidized service.
The question seems to be if some of the KUSF could be used to provide better broadband Internet service to rural areas instead of specifically used for wired phone service only. I will learn more as we begin committee hearings. This is a really big issue for rural areas as having fast Internet is a necessity these days to encourage people to move into smaller rural towns.
A couple of issues that seem to be making quick progress are a bill in judiciary committee to change the appointment process for judges and a bill in commerce committee that no longer allows paycheck deductions from public employees for political purposes.
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Another issue brought up last weekend is the corporate farm laws in Kansas. These laws have been on the books since the 1930s. It would probably be good to take a look at the laws again to see if anything really needs changing.
I can remember at least twice in the last 30 or so years that these laws have been looked at, and consequently changed very little. We will see if any changes may be warranted or if it's better to simply leave well enough alone.
We are still early enough in session that rules for the House and Senate have not yet received final approval. Even though the Rules Committee is fairly obscure, it is very important as the rules are what control the flow of legislation and govern the type of amendments that can be offered.
This means that amendments have to address the same subject matter as the underlying bill, as an example. Without these rules, everything would just be chaos.
Since receiving the governor's proposed budget, I have had little time to review it, but know enough about it to say that the budget proposal includes keeping the sales tax that was passed three years ago and eliminating the mortgage interest deduction.
Without those two things, the budget proposal goes south pretty quickly and shows a large deficit beginning next year. The alternatives we have are to keep sales tax and eliminate mortgage tax deductions, or cut an additional $300 million out of the 2014 budget, or find some other source of revenue for the State.
There is little doubt in my mind that a $300 million cut in the budget will affect education funding, and many other programs, in some way. New ideas to enhance revenue or cut programs are floated nearly every day, so it remains to be seen which alternative eventually wins.
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Last 10: St. Louis 7-2-1; Buffalo 3-7-0
Season series: This is the first of two meetings between the St. Louis Blues and Buffalo Sabres. In their most recent matchup, on Jan. 21, 2012, David Backes scored a pair of goals and set up two others as the Blues recorded a 4-2 victory at Scottrade Center.
Big story: While the Blues' goal is to compete for a Stanley Cup this season, the Sabres are trying to build a perennial contender. It's a process that figures to take time, but there's renewed vigor in Buffalo with the returns of Pat LaFontaine and Ted Nolan to the organization. Nolan's first weekend back as coach resulted in the split of a home-and-home with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Blues: One of the NHL's most lethal offenses despite a 4-1 loss to the Washington Capitals on Sunday, St. Louis already has nine players with at least 10 points and Vladimir Sobotka will join them with his next goal or assist.
Believe it or not, though, the Blues still have potent weapons they're trying to get going. Patrik Berglund, who sat out against the Capitals with an upper-body injury, has scored at least 17 goals in four of the past five seasons but has just one in 2013-14, scored way back on Oct. 5.
"I think a lot of people go through this in their career," Berglund told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It's kind of my first time that I shoot and shoot but it won't go in. For me, as long as I feel like I'm helping the team out there, I know it will come. It's just not about scoring. I'm killing penalties. I'm playing against some very good lines. I'll get my chances and one will go in."
Sabres: Even though Buffalo couldn't build on a 3-1 win against the Maple Leafs in Nolan's debut Friday, dropping the matchup Saturday by a 4-2 score, the coach said in many ways their effort was more commendable in defeat, as Jamie McBain and Tyler Ennis cut into a 3-0 deficit in the third period.
Nolan has spent his first several days back with the team trying to pump up the young Sabres and pump life back into a franchise that has fallen on hard times since qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2011.
"Ted came in and basically had one-on-ones with every guy in the room," defenseman Tyler Myers told The Buffalo News. "One of the things he brought up was don't be afraid to jump up as much as you can. There's mistakes that are going to be made, and that's part of hockey. Don't worry about it. It was a good feeling to hear that."
Who's hot: Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester has one goal and four assists during a four-game point streak. … Sabres goalie Ryan Miller has only won four of his 15 decisions, but he has a .919 save percentage and it's at .928 over his past five starts, including three 40-plus save performances.
Injury report: Berglund is day-to-day for St. Louis while defenseman Jordan Leopold (finger) is on injured reserve. … Buffalo activated defenseman Mike Weber (upper body) off injured reserve and he will play Tuesday.


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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today approved two settlements totaling more than $84 million that stem from the Commission's investigations into wholesale power markets during the Western energy crisis of 2000-2001.
The first case involves a settlement agreement under which PacifiCorp will pay $27.9 million to resolve all outstanding matters and claims against it related to its transactions in the California and Pacific Northwest power markets during the period from January 1, 2000 through June 20, 2001. California's investor-owned utilities, the state Attorney General's Office, the California Electricity Oversight Board, the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Department of Water Resources all agreed to the settlement.
The second case involves a settlement agreement under which $56 million will be released to resolve refund issues and other claims against El Paso Marketing LP in FERC proceedings arising from the Western energy crisis. The El Paso settlement is sponsored by El Paso and San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and supported by Pacific Gas & Electric Company. It resolves matters and claims relating to El Paso and arising from events and transactions in the Western energy markets during the January 2000-June 2001 settlement period.
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Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go! But those woods could be filled with pine trees, grass, mold, pollen and tons of other things that can play havoc on a childs asthma. For the over 26 million asthma sufferers here in the US, the holidays can be anything but the most wonderful time of the year. But by keeping the following tips from LivingWithAsthma.net in mind, there will likely be a lot less sneezing and wheezing around the Thanksgiving table this year!
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I'm coming from Manhattan, so ideally i'd like to play in one of the BK neighborhoods that's closer to the city. But i'm dying for more regular play and this is a more active group than the Manh groups on this site.
I'm very open to various times (i freelance), just suggest something. Happy to share cost at whichever facility you normally play at, or i've got some good ones too. Who's ready to hit?
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Buster, Just saw your post. I am located in Brooklyn and have a membership at the NYSC in cobble hill which is really close to Manhattan via train and has a bubble with two courts. I can get you in with a guest pass and a court is $15 per person for an hour. I'd love to get a game going! I am also willing to come into Manhattan to play as well.I am going to be away for about ten days starting Tuesday on Spring vacation with my wife and kids but would love to play after that. I see you are a bassist. I am a guitar player! my cell # is 917-723-4819 and my email is: email@example.com
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Sounds good, Derek! If you want to get a game in this weekend or Monday, let me know. Otherwise, for sure when you get back
Hey Buster, still interested in hitting? I live in Greenpoint near McCarren Park, also no problem for me to play in Manhattan. I'm about a 3.5, but rusty after a long winter. 34 year old guy here, in case it matters. Hit me up if you feeling like playing sometime - firstname.lastname@example.com. Somewhat flexible schedule, but prefer weeknights and weekends, can do some weekday mornings.
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New Jersey Standout Sidney Rivera Signs With Soccer Monarchs
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Feb. 5, 2011
NORFOLK, VA--Old Dominion University head men's soccer coach Alan Dawson announced the signing of All-State midfielder Sidney Rivera (Hampton, NJ.) of North Hunterdon High School to a letter of intent to play for the Monarchs in the 2011 season.
" Sidney is a gifted attacking player who combines his physical size with his natural instincts around goal," Said Dawson. " He adds another dimension to our attack and we are excited to have him join our Monarch Soccer family."
Rivera led North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, NJ. with 19 goals along with nine assists. Rivera scored two goals six times. His multiple goals came against Hillsborough, Franklin, Watchung Hills Regional, Montgomery, High Point and Hackettstown High Schools. In the Franklin match, one of the goals was on a kick-off.
Rivera was named first team All-Skyland Conference and was selected All-State Central Section 1. He was the Express Times Boys Soccer Player of the Week during the week of Oct. 5.
Rivera played midfield and forward for Match Fit Academy and led the U15/16 Academy team in goals scored during the 2009-10 season. He has also been selected for the New Jersey ODP team, Super Y ODP team and most recently the 2010 New Jersey market Training Session for the best players from each academy in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania area.
" I decided on ODU because I feel it is the right place for me to continue improving both on the field, as a player, and off the field, as a person and student," said Rivera. " Once I stepped onto the campus I fell in love with the school. The facilities are top notch, the people are very welcoming, and the surrounding area of Norfolk is very appealing. Above all, I think the coaches and the soccer teams prestige were my deciding factor. Coach Dawson and Coach Sniegoski made me very comfortable and a part of the Monarch family since day one. I am very excited to help continue ODU's success."
The son of Carlos and Ana Rivera, Sidney plans to major in Exercise Science at Old Dominion.


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Theater Review: 'Pitch Perfect' at Central Works
"When you hired us, you said we were like family ... "
"That was bullshit!"
Frantic ad exec Bob (Brian Trybom) bursts into the half-abandoned LA office of the firm with bloodletting on his mind, having flown in from New York to fire someone, talking loud, brash and peppering his aggression with expletives, obviously trying to impress himself as much as everyone else in his self-conscious hard nose act. "You didn't have a childhood, did you, Bob?" queries Caitlin (Maggie Mason), the pert, blue-eyed Brit office manager-cum-multitasker, wearing many hats; "We used to have jobs here!" Then a Hide-a-Bed groans "Oh God, where am I?"—and the audience is introduced to Roger (Tim Redmond), a kind of self-made Robin Hood of an agency creative director, sarcastic and playful up against Bob's stiff contentiousness ...
So begins former agency creative director Martin Edwards' play, an abrasive comedy, well-directed by Gary Graves at Central Works in the Berkeley City Club. All the testosterone-driven rivalry between Bob and Roger give what seems at first the focus of the tale the aura (and volume) of an arena rock concert. But it's not just a door slammer with iron doors. 'Pitch Perfect' is also something of a glib, wistful failed romance between Roger and his Ex, Maggie (Deb Fink), fired partly through Rogers's betrayal-as-ass-saving, which he confesses to her as he seeks her assistance in a Hail Mary play-of-a-pitch to save his neck again from wringing, pinned to a more unusual, personal pitch aimed at an estranged lover, sweetened with a rare bottle of Sean Thackary wine: a proposal of divorce.
The women, Maggie and Caitlin, are the softer voices—one aspiring, feeling her way upward on the corporate ladder; the other bitter, brought back from early retirement, painting sunsets from the balcony of a Santa Monica condo, with an immediately rescinded job offer—as counterpoint to the sound and fury of the men, accented by Greg Scharpen's Mood Music. Deb Fink's an old hand at comedy at Central Works and on other local stages, the jaded Maggie being a new arrow in her quiver. Maggie Mason—who distinguished herself just a few years ago as the girlfriend of a white collar child abuser in TheatreFIRST's unusual 'Future Me,' staged in another room at the City Club—perfectly balances Caitlin's devoted adoration of Roger with her cool ambition, making her final gambit a fitting follow-up to Maggie's own call of Checkmate!
If much of contemporary stage comedy hereabouts plays like rehashed Sitcom, 'Pitch Perfect' is more Movie of the Week. It's a good, breezy comedy for summer, one with an undertow, besides "throwaway" lines like the one about the exemplary Super Bowl ad with the projectile-vomiting baby, or Maggie's nettled declaration to Bob concerning Roger: "I'm not taking that job if the Executive Bathroom comes with him in it!" Not a bad choice for third position in a season of four plays, the bridge from Spring to Fall shows—but the run ends August 18, tickets priced at Central Works' usual bargain rates, including pay-what you-can Thursday nights, as well as daytime shows Sundays at five.


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CHICAGO — As hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans become newly eligible for health insurance next year, their search for adequate medical services will be most difficult in pockets of the state where a shortage of primary care physicians could be made more acute by the federal health overhaul.
Illinois is slightly above average compared to other states in its overall supply of primary care doctors. The problem — as in most states — is that doctors aren't evenly distributed, leaving some areas relying on nurses and physician assistants to provide care. Doctors don't necessarily go where need is greatest. Instead, studies have shown, they cluster in affluent areas.
Gov. Pat Quinn has requested a statewide strategy to address the need for more health professionals — not just doctors, but nurses and other providers.
Illinois Department of Public Health Director LaMar Hasbrouck, a physician leading a workgroup studying the gaps, said solutions in Illinois may include delivering health care through real-time video hookups, a fast track to credentials for military veterans who gained medical experience at war, sharing nurses across state borders and "warming up to the idea'' that nurses and physician assistants can do more to deliver primary care.
Licensed practitioners need to work "at the very top of their license and experience and professional competency, so we can get every ounce of care from them,'' Hasbrouck said at a meeting on implementing the health law in Illinois.
It could be an uphill battle.
The Illinois State Medical Society, which represents more than 11,000 doctors, successfully lobbied against legislative measures this year to give nurses with advanced degrees more authority to practice without a doctor's supervision and to allow trained dentists to give flu shots and other immunizations. The doctors argued that it's unsafe to push those boundaries.
Twenty-two counties in Illinois have primary care doctor shortages, according to state and federal health officials. Another 200 pockets of Illinois have shortages, both in urban and rural areas. It would take nearly 1,000 new primary care doctors, according to a government estimate, to bring all those areas up to a healthy supply.
The most severe shortage is in Gallatin County on the Kentucky border in the far southeastern part of the state. The county of 5,500 residents has no hospital, dentist or full-time doctor. Some residents pay $50 a year for an air ambulance service that can fly them to a hospital in emergencies. Women deliver their babies at hospitals an hour away.
The lack of primary care is both a fact of life and a detriment to health, said retired teacher and community volunteer Kappy Scates of Shawneetown, whose regular doctor is in a neighboring county 20 miles away. "People without insurance or a medical card put off going to the doctor. They try to take care of their kids first,'' she said, adding that increased coverage through the Affordable Care Act will help.
Other Illinois counties with severe shortfalls of primary care doctors are scattered throughout the state. Many are sparsely populated and losing residents, according to Census data.
In the south, along with Gallatin County, widespread primary care doctor shortages exist in Washington, Clay, Fayette, Clinton, Johnson and Hamilton counties. In central Illinois, the countywide doctor shortages are in Menard, Macoupin, De Witt, Marshall, Shelby, Douglas, Mason, Moultrie, Piatt, Brown and Woodford. In northern Illinois, the counties with shortages are Henderson, Mercer, Carroll and Ogle.
Federal officials determine areas with doctor shortages based on a complex formula that involves not only the population-to-primary care physician ratio, but percentage of people living in poverty, measures of infant health and distance to the nearest available source of care.
With nearly 10,600 primary care doctors caring for patients, Illinois ranks 22nd among states in its rate of doctors per 100,000 residents, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges. That puts the state slightly above average for its supply of active primary care doctors.
Nationally, there were 79.4 primary care physicians active in patient care per 100,000 Americans in 2010. Illinois had 81.8.
Utah had the fewest doctors to go around with 59.4 per 100,000 residents. Vermont had the most with 111.5 active primary care doctors per 100,000 people.
Recommendations from a 2010 report on the physician workforce in Illinois were never implemented, said Dr. Russell Robertson, dean of the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago. He still holds out hope for the new statewide strategy, which he will take part in creating.
But Robertson said there are forces — such as the so-called "hidden curriculum'' — that make recruiting new primary care physicians difficult. During training, he said, student doctors study with physicians who are specialists and who unintentionally dissuade them from primary care.
"They say, 'You're such a smart person. Why would you want to spend your time providing primary care?''' Robertson said. "It changes their perspective.''


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this is a discussion within the College Community Forum; Six days before the team closes its season in the Alamo Bowl, the game has become the least of Texas Tech's worries, which began this afternoon with a mysterious report from the university that coach Mike Leach wouldn't be on ...
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Six days before the team closes its season in the Alamo Bowl, the game has become the least of Texas Tech's worries, which began this afternoon with a mysterious report from the university that coach Mike Leach wouldn't be on the sideline due to an investigation into alleged mistreatment of a player:
LUBBOCK, Texas Texas Tech coach Mike Leach has been suspended while the school investigates complaints from a player and his family about treatment after an injury.
The school said in a release Monday defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill will be the interim coach and lead the team in the Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2 against Michigan State.
McNeill will remain in charge of the team until the investigation is complete.
The official release from the university doesn't shed much light. ESPN reporter Joe Schad, however, gets more specific on his Twitter feed: "Mike Leach is alleged to have isolated a player in a dark closet for not practicing with a concussion." That player, we soon learned, is wide receiver Adam James, son of ex-SMU star and current ESPN analyst Craig James, who reported to Texas Tech "with great regret and after consideration" that "[his] son had been subjected to actions and treatment not consistent with common sense rules for safety and health," according to a release by the family. Specific allegations include confining Adam James to an equipment room for three hours when he was unable to practice and instructing a trainer to "place James in an electrical closet." An attorney for Leach (who also has his own law degree) admitted James was secluded on two occasions, but "the circumstances were not as portrayed by the James family."
Oh: By the way, Craig James was scheduled to call the Alamo Bowl for ESPN on Jan. 2, where his and his son's beef with Leach will be the hottest story throughout the broadcast; predictably, that assignment has been scuttled.
From Leach's perspective, the important word is alleged; an accusation by a disgruntled player can fall apart in a hurry when people start digging into the facts. It doesn't help Leach, though, that the quirky, freewheeling persona that's made him such a crowd (and blogger) favorite over the years also makes him a logical candidate to step over the line. We already know he's no stranger to creative punishment, and with the recent deluge of information about the debilitating long-term effects of concussions, anything in the vicinity of "isolating a player in a closet" for refusing to put himself at risk could qualify as a firing offense. And a complaint by a well-connected football lifer like Craig James is unlikely to come up empty.
Not that anyone is particularly looking to kick Leach to the curb the way so many people in Kansas seemed anxious to be rid of the infamously sour and temperamental coach Mark Mangino earlier this year, when a complaint by a current player in the midst of a losing streak sparked an investigation that opened the floodgates for a parade of ex-players and parents to air their grievances and force Mangino's ouster. Aside from some contentious contract negotiations, Leach is a generally beloved figure around Lubbock, one of the game's few genuinely unique characters and the most successful coach in Tech history to boot; the Raiders' first obvious regression on the field in his tenure this fall -- from a breakout 11-2 finish in 2008 to a relatively mediocre 8-4 in '09 -- isn't going to change that. If James' charge has legs, though, all the wins, passing records, primetime cameos and fawning national profiles may not be enough to save the Cap'n this time.
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I don't recommend anyone doing this to people in their care or management.
Especially if the person is the son of a nationally known sports analyst.
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Re: Mike Leach suspended for isolating Craig James' concussed son in electrical closet
Now he's been fired. He'd be a great candidate for other jobs, but I doubt he's going to want to coach one team and be suing another. And I think this suit will take awhile.
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