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|December 2011
|Richard M. Dupee, MD, FACP, AGSF, Governor
- Governors Message
- Priorities for Payment and Practice Reform with a Focus on Primary Care
- MA ACP Annual Scientific Meeting November 19, 2011
- Welcome to our Newest Governors Council Members
- Early Career Physicians Corner*
- Mark Your Calendar
- ACP Announces Awardees for 2012 from Massachusetts
- Congratulations to the New Fellows of the MA Chapter
- Welcome to the New Members and Associates of the MA Chapter
Governors Message
Richard M. Dupee, MD, FACP, Governor
Dear Massachusetts ACP Colleagues,
It has certainly been an interesting and challenging year, as we begin to see the implications of the Affordable Care Act, signed 20 months ago, a law in which Americans are deeply divided. As Don Berwick, (no longer CMS chief), said: Its a complex, complicated law. To explain it takes a while. To understand it takes an investment that Im not sure the man or the woman in the street wants to make or ought to make.
And therein lies the rub. We are only learning what is in the law after it has already passed!
Medicine is at a crossroads, and we are in the thick of it. Here in Massachusetts, Governor Patrick and Secretary Bigby are expressly concerned that our present system of reimbursement simply does not work. Contracts with organization in this commonwealth have led to significant disparities in payment for hospitals and physicians. For example, a hospital in one organization is paid considerably more for the same service than another, yet with the same outcome. And a physician in one hospital system is paid 95% more, for the same procedure, than a physician in another hospital system. It makes no sense, and clearly our legislators know it. Thus, the time has come to level the playing field, and it is to that end that the Massachusetts Chapter of ACP is closely involved in the debate over how we can solve this dilemma.
In response to the Governors plan to alter hospital and physician payment, which is heavily reliant on the ACO and AQC concept, our council has produced an important document on physician payment reform. Please review the document in this newsletter, and let me know your thoughts. We are also working on a similar document for subspecialists.
The congressional super committee's failure to agree on a deficit-reduction plan has left physicians once again on the brink of a dramatic cutback in Medicare reimbursements.
The American College of Physicians has used an e-mail campaign to urge legislators on the super committee to "go big" and repeal the sustainable growth rate, which was enacted in 1997 as a means of controlling costs by linking Medicare payments to the nation's economy, but has instead dangled like a sword over doctors' heads for a decade.
But the collapse of the super committee's efforts now means that Medicare payments to doctors will be cut by 27.4 percent unless Congress intervenes before Jan. 1. We are hoping that the current bill being legislated in the House, which again extends the Doc Fix, will give some breathing room, but it is part of a bill which calls for extension of the payroll tax reduction, and approving the Keystone oil pipeline. Stay tuned, but in the meantime, please contact your legislators!
Finally, we had a terrific annual meeting in November, with record attendance and an excellent program of speakers, posters, reviews, and our annual Town Hall meeting and of course a lively Medical Jeopardy, this year won by the Residents at St. Vincents. We are proud of all of our poster and oral presenters, and Jeopardy winners, who will now compete at the ACP Annual Meeting in April in New Orleans!
Priorities for Payment and Practice Reform with a Focus on Primary Care
Massachusetts Chapter, American College of Physicians
A Policy Statement
Preamble: As the professional society representing over 3500 primary care and specialty internal medicine physicians and trainees in Massachusetts, we put forward the following policy positions and recommendations which we believe are essential to achieving health system reform. The following statements concentrate on (but are not limited to) primary care, which, as the foundation of our health care delivery system, requires urgent revitalization and prioritization.
- There must be a new net investment (of money and other resources) in primary care practices to enable their transformation to high performance entities; the investment needs to be prospective.
- Payment to primary care practices and its professionals should be sufficient to enable and incent achievement of desired primary care outcomes and reflect the actual value created; it should not be based on existing RVU determinations (which undervalue primary care services), though RVU-based payment may remain relevant for some specialty and procedural providers.
- Payment for primary care should transition from fee-for-service to increasing degrees of bundled, comprehensive, or capitated payment over time and be complemented by performance-based, practice reinvestment/bonus payment for achieving desired goals in quality, patient centeredness, and efficiency as practices transform and develop the capacity to manage performance risk.
- Any bundled, global, or performance-based payment for primary care must be robustly risk-adjusted, taking into account not only demographic and clinical factors, but also psychosocial determinants.
- Payment reform for primary care should be offered uniformly across payers.
- Performance metrics and standards used for payment must be scientifically validated, evidence-based, clinically meaningful, and vetted by practices before being implemented.
- Loan forgiveness and other recruitment and retention incentives should be built into payment reform measures for primary care
- Liability reform must accompany payment and practice reform for primary care. Reform should include but not be limited to:
- expert-panel pre-review of claims with a majority of panel members being practicing, same-specialty experts
- no opt-out for claims deemed of low merit
- a prejudgment interest rate equal to the national annual inflation rate or a similar statistic.
- safe-harbor provisions against law suit for practice of evidence-based medicine
- cooling- off period with opportunity for non-admissible apology and communication between parties.
- Primary care physicians and practices participating in an ACO or other integrated, risk-sharing care network must:
- occupy at least 50% of seats on the organizations board when its performance metrics and goals are heavily weighted towards primary care outcomes
- choose and approve the mode of payment for primary care and have oversight authority for its implementation and ongoing operation
- participate in the design, selection, implementation, and analysis of performance metrics
- specify and be provided in timely fashion the systems, collaborations, and data necessary to fulfill their responsibilities within the organization
- Practices that choose not to join a formal ACO structure yet commit to and achieve its overall goals of high-value, patient-centered, coordinated care should not be penalized for remaining outside the ACO and should be able to interact with its participants in the delivery of care.
Adopted by the MA Chapter, American College of Physicians
Governors Council
MA ACP Annual Scientific Meeting
November 19, 2011
Morning Session Presenters (left to right): Elaine M. Hylek, MD, MPH, Richard S. Irwin, MD, FACP, Master FCCP and Anthony L. Esposito, MD, FACP
Award Winners (left to right): Laureate Award: John T. Harrington, MD, MACP, Chapter Leadership Award: Phoebe Cushman, MD, MA Governor, Richard M. Dupee, MD, FACP and Young Leadership Award: Sarah Turbett, MD
Town Hall Meeting Moderator and Panelists (left to right) MA Governor, Richard M. Dupee, MD, FACP, Secretary of MA Health and Human Services, Judy Ann Bigby, MD, Massachusetts Medical Society President, Lynda Young, MD, and CEO of Atrius Health, Gene Lindsey, MD
MA ACP Annual Scientific Meeting Oral and Poster Presentations
On Saturday, November 19 at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians, we had a near record attendance and saw another dazzling display of scholastic achievements in the form of 49 brilliant posters, along with oral presentations. The winners from among the medical students and residents were:
Oral Presentation Winners
Clinical Vignette: Uday Lele, MD, MetroWest Medical Center
The Role of MTHFR 677TT Genotype in a Case of Recurrent Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)
Research: Aparna Raj, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Quality of Breast Cancer Care in a Boston Area Patient Navigator Program
Resident Poster Competition
Clinical Vignette Winner: Poster # 1 Anju Bhagavan, MBBS, BayState
Frozen Blue Toes
Clinical Vignette Honorable Mention: Poster #17 Abbas Rupawala, MD, UMass
An Unusual Cause of Acute Kidney Injury and Nephromegaly
Clinical Vignette Honorable Mention: Poster #33 Annie Daniel, MBBS, St. Vincent Hospital
An Unmasking of Celiac Disease
Research Winner: Poster # 5 Arash Bedayat, MD, MetroWest Medical Center
Characteristics of Uncertain Acute Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis on CTPA Images: Review of 1660 Cases
Student Poster Competition Winner: Poster #47 Xibei Jia, Tufts Medical School
Safety of Midlines vs PICC Lines for Home Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy
Medical Jeopardy
That same day, in another tight fought, nail-biting competition, the Saint Vincent Hospital Jeopardy Team, as returning champions, blasted through an array of Massachusetts best teaching programs. Their players Drs. Praveen Sudhindra, Dhaval Shah, Karthik Gnanapandithan, and Atul Palkar, and coached by Drs. Joel Popkin and Saurbha Dani (last years captain) performed at a simply astonishing level of knowledge and speed. For their efforts they will for the second year in a row travel to New Orleans, courtesy ACP, to compete at the annual meeting in April. Last year, representing Massachusetts in National Jeopardy, they came in second place!
Medical Jeopardy Team from Saint Vincent Hospital (left to right): Drs. Karthik Gnanapandithan, Dhaval Shah, Praveen Sudhindra, and Atul Palkar
Visit us on Facebook for more photos from the Annual Meeting.
Welcome to our Newest Governors Council Members
At the Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 19, 2011, the MA ACP membership elected two new Governors council members, Dr. Elisa Choi and Dr. Stuart Mushlin. Drs. Choi and Mushlin will join the council for the first time at the next meeting in January. We look forward to their active participation!
Early Career Physicians Corner*
The Massachusetts Chapters Council of Early Career Physicians has enjoyed a successful and productive fall quarter. The Council has now created and approved its mission and bylaws, elected a panel of 12 officers and members-at-large, and enlisted a group of interested actively participating physicians. If you are interested in joining the Council of Early Career Physicians, please contact Chairperson Dr. Phoebe Cushman.
The Councils first formal endeavor was to present a panel discussion at this years Annual Scientific Meeting (held November 19, 2011) entitled, Careers in Primary Care and Hospitalist Medicine: Sustainability versus Burnout. The Councils members were quite pleased with the turnout and enthusiasm, and hope that the attendees found the conversation useful.
Dr. Phoebe Cushman moderates the ECP Session on Careers in Primary Care and Hospitalist Medicine: Sustainability vs. Burnout
The Council also created the Massachusetts Chapters Facebook page-- thanks to all those who contributed posts and photos to help keep the page current. The Councils goal is to continue to develop the page, so that it may be utilized effectively by the Massachusetts Chapter as a whole.
Please SAVE THE DATE for a social and professional networking event for all early career physicians (physicians who graduated from medical school within the last 16 years and who are NOT currently in residency or fellowship training):
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27th, 2012
7:30PM to 10PM
The Metropolitan Club (MetBar) in Chesnut Hill
1210 Boylston St.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Hors doeuvres and cash bar
Spouses/significant others welcome
Questions? Contact Lynda Layer or 781-434-7317
*According to ACP, a young physician or early career physician is defined as a physician member of ACP who is within sixteen years of graduating medical school and who is not currently in residency or fellowship.
Mark Your Calendar
Wednesday & Thursday, June 6-7, 2012 (new date for 2012)
ACP Leadership Day on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Saturday, November 3, 2012 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting
ACP Announces Awardees for 2012 from Massachusetts
Edward R. Loveland Memorial Award for a Distinguished Contribution to the Health Field
Award Established: 1961
In honor of: The late Edward R. Loveland, the first Executive Staff Officer of the College. This award is bestowed to a layperson or lay organization for a distinguished contribution in the health field.
2012 Recipient: CRUDEM Foundation, Ludlow, Massachusetts
Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award
Award Established: 2003
In honor of: The late Dr. Joseph E. Johnson III, former ACP Governor, Regent, Treasurer, Interim Executive Vice President, and Senior Vice President for Membership.
The award recognizes an Associate member of the College who has demonstrated qualities that exemplify the Colleges mission to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. For each year considered, nominees must be Associates as of June 30th of that year. Nominees may have outstanding achievements in any of a wide variety of areas, including leadership, medical practice, research, teaching, publications, advocacy, and/or volunteerism.
2012 Recipient: Andrew B. Trotter, MD, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Congratulations to the New Fellows of the MA Chapter
Charles E Cavagnaro, MD, FACP
Scott M Halista, MD FACP
Carey D Kimmelstiel, MD, FACP
Mark Krivopal, MD, FACP
Tony Makdisi, MD, FACP
Ashish Verma, MD FACP
Ramnik J Xavier, MD FACP
Maria A Yialamas, MD, FACP
Welcome to the New Members and Associates of the MA Chapter
Deep Adhikari, MBBS
Charlotte Atiemo, MD
Scott M Barnett, MD
Durga Bhavani Bathini, MD
Eugene J Boss, MD
Daniel L Bourque, MD
Danielle L Brook, MD
Nathaniel F Brown, MD
Bharanidhar Chandrasekaran, MBBS
Aditi R Chittety, MBBS
Ryan C Chua, MD
Richard Chung, MD
Alicia Clark, MD
Rosemary E Corderi, MD
Kristin A Cox, MD
Paul C Cremer, MD
Gwen C Crevensten, MD
Shaji P Daniel, MD
Christian A Dankers, MD
Fabian Delgado, MD
Deborah Derderian, DO
Bishnu P Dhakal, MD
Jefferson H Dickey, MD
Mustafa M Dohadwala, MD
Katherine A Dudley, MD
Elena Eberle, MD
Joseph D Feuerstein, MD
Amy Francis, DO
Cassie Frank, MD MPH
Mercedes Freije Ibanez, MD
Shachi Gupta, MD
Puncho Gurung, MBBS
Luba Hafkin, MD
Mohmmad F Hajjiri, MBBS
Ardeshir Z Hashmi, MBBS
LeRoi S Hicks, MD
Rebecca N Hutchinson, MD
Guibenson Hyppolite, MD
Aqueel Imran, MBBS
Diana A Israeli, DO
Simon L Jacobs, MD
Emmanuel F Kanyi, MD
Stephen C Kaplan, MD
Jinesh Kochar, MD MPH
Indira Doris Konanur, DO
Steven Lamontagne, MD
James D Laudate, MD
Calvin A Lee, MD
Teli Leung, MD
Margaret Lippincott, MD
Eva Liu, MD
Kyaw M Lwin, MBBS
David B Macdonald, MD
Syed K Mahmood, MBBS
Madhavi Manchikalapati, MBBS
Ilia Manevich, MD
Victoria Mark, MD
Manish R Maski, MD
Eric Jeffrey Matthews, DO
Janine M McCauley, MD
Francis V McDermott, MD
Sarfaraz Memon, MBBS
Elna M Nagasako, MD
Azadeh Nasseh, MD
Ernesto J Negron, MD
Elizabeth Keating O'Donnell, MD
Amanke Chigozie Oranu, MD
Phyllis Owusu-Griffin, MD
Kumar Pallav, MBBS
Cecilia Pena-Sisto, MD
Naureen Raja-Shafiq, MD
Vidya Raju, MD
Yamini Ramakrishna, MBBS
Deepa Lal Ratwani, DO
Nishal Cholapurath Ravindran, MBBS
Madhab Ray, MBBS
Eva B Reitschuler-Cross, MD
Hilda Rivera-Rivera, MD
Douglas A Rubinson, MD PhD
Mohamed Sageer, MBBS
Lipika Samal, MD MPH
Frantisek Sandor, MD
Mayu Sekiguchi Runge, MD MPH
Qaiser Shafiq, MD
Ruta Shah, MD
Lily Shen, MD
Alex Sica, MD
Manavjot S Sidhu, MBBS
Jennifer Rose Siegel, MD
Amrita Singh, MBBS
Lisa Sonia Starobin, MD
Elizabeth K Stevenson, MD
Natasha Surette, MD
David B Sykes, MD PhD
Nestor G Tarragona, MD
Helen C Taylor, MD
Deepu A Thomas, MBBS
Ryan W Thompson, MD
Laxmi N A Thummalakunta, MBBS
Andrew B Trotter, MD
Prakrita B Udas, MD
Alexander V Uihlein, MD
Venu Madhav Velagapudi, MD
Charlotte A Wu, MD
Jean N Yeung, MBBS BSc
Ryan D Zaklin, MD
Jeffrey A Zesiger, MD
Noormuhammad Oosman Abbasakoor, MBBCH
Srinath Adusumalli, MD
Tokunbo O Ajayi, MD
Rahana Aju, MD
Sora Al Rowas, MD
Neha Alang, MBBS
Fadi Aldaas, MD
Satya B Allaparthi, MD
Andrew Allegretti, MD
Joshua W Allen-Dicker, MD MPH
Curtis K Andrews, DO
George L Anesi, MD
Mansoor Arif, MBBS
Mariam H. Ayub, MD
Samia Ayub, MBBS
Sanggyu Bae, MD
Anushka Bagga, MD
Yan Bai, MD
Dahlia Banerji, MD
Janelle V Baptiste, MD, MPH
Basim A Baragaba, MD,MBBS
Tomer Barak, MD
Ian J Barbash, MD
Abdul Basit, MD
Kristin Beaver, MD
Arash Bedayat, MD
Sarath Bhimineni, MD
Lindsay E Brown, MD
Kathleen Mary Buchheit, MD
Anjali Budhathoki, MD
Monique C Carreno, MD
Samuel Chakola, MD
Aditya Chandrasekhar, MD
Joseph P Charpentier, DO
Surya Teja Chaturvedula, MBBS
Biswashree Chaudhury, MD
Deborah C Chen, MD
Wendy M Chiang, MD
Kalpana Chilukuri, MBBS
Sridhar R Chitti, MBBS
Eunice Y Chuang, MD
Wanda Marie Colon, MD
Fernando M Contreras-Valdes, MD
Annie Shaji Daniel, MBBS
Koushik Kumar Das, MD
Nadya S Davila Lourido, MD
Aretha D Davis, MD
Shilpa Desai, MD
Kunal V Domakonda, MD
Benjamin Jacob Drapkin, MD PhD
Aleh Dzedavets, MD
Fahad Y Edrees, MD,MBBS
Umar Farooq, MBBS
Vivek K Gag, MD
Leila Ganjehei, MD
Hong Jenny Gao, MD
Neetika Garg, MBBS
Katharine A Germansky, MD
Christopher James Gibson, MD
Karthik Gnanapandithan, MD
Raj K Gopal, MD,PhD
Sujeet Govindan, MD
Kelly L Graham, MD
Daniel M Halperin, MD
Christina Harding;MD
Aaron Harman, MD
Kamran Hassan, MBBS
Zena Hassan, MD
Jennifer T Higa, MD
Jonathan Dwyer Holdorf, MD
Yamen Homsi, MD
Lihong Huo, MD
Abu Hurairah, MD
Tanvir Hussain, MD
Layli Jamali, MD
Muhammad Janisar, MBBS
Ahmed Jawad, MBBS
Zhenghui Gordon Jiang, MD
Kimberly G Kallianos, MD
Yugandhar kandimalla, MD
Nancy Kang;MD
Mohammad Amin Kashef, MD
Anas M Khalil, MD
Austin Kim, MD
Georgios KITSIOS, MD, MS, PHD
Ravi K Kshirsagar, MD
Jason Lake, MD, MPH
Mary T LaSalvia, MD
Jaeyoung Lee, MD
Shin Yin Lee, MD
Sean D Levy, MD
Robert Coleman Lindsley, Jr MD, PhD
Angela M Lo, MD
Katayoun Lotfi, MD
Kristin L Macarthur, MD
Hoyoung Maeng, MD
Carmela Mancini, DO, MPH
Paolo L Mascari, MD
Shihab Masrur, MBBS
Mallika Lakshmi Mendu, MD
Roeland J. W. Middelbeek, MD MSc
Daniel Miller, DO
Parisa Momtaz, MDCM
Randall J Morse, MD
Shveta Motwani, MD
Syed Hussain Muqqadus, MD
Firas Y Naji, DO
Iva Neupane, MBBS
Michael S. Newman, DO
Robert F O Connor, MD
Joshua Charles Obuch, MD
Chidimma I Okoli, MD
Ariela Orkaby, MD
Eric D Osgood, MD
Atul Vijay Palkar, MD
Sanket Patel, MD
Jonathan Peled, MD
William F Pendergraft III, MD,PhD
Mary Linton B Peters, MD
Christina Pham, MD
Prince A Philip, MD
Andrea Lynn Poisson, MD
Husain Poonawala, MBBS
Divya Prabhu, MBBS
David Ozzie Rahni, MD
Aparna Raj, MD
Alison B Rapoport, MD
Masooma Rehmtulla, MD
Kenneth Roach, MD,PhD
Giulio R Romeo, MD
Christopher G Roy, MD
Jonah N Rubin, MD
Robert Salazar, MD
Pooja Sareen, MD
Relffa Jacho Sathe, MD
Stavros Savvas, MD
Zienab Sawan, MBBS
Jessica Sheehan, MD
Sandeep R Somalaraju, MBBS
Young-Soo Song, MD
Rahul Nitin Sood, MD
Erick R Soria Galvarro Duran, MD
Roy Sriwattanakomen, MD
Sean D Stanhope, DO
Amanda M. Staples, DO
Anna Stepczynski, MD
Diana Suris, DO
Walter Sussman, DO
Hannah K Swayze-Quinn, MD
Rafeel O Syed, MD
Nazbeh Taghizadeh, MD
Elliot B. Tapper, MD
Arpankumar V Thaker, MD
Jaclyn Therrien, DO
Ahmet Toprak, MD
Jason Touhey, DO
Kathleen A Townes, MD
Katrina E Traber, MD
Indumathy Varadarajan, MBBS
Sebastian A Varas Garcia, MD
Jianfeng Wang, MD
Robert E Weir, MD
Annalee Wells, DO
Suzanne Wheeler, DO
Haishan Xu, MD
Justin L yamin;MD
Xiaoyu Yang, MD
Abena Yankah, MD
Jungwon Yoon, MD
Cindy Yu, MD
David J Yuh, MD
Nargiza Yuldasheva, MD
Khalid Ramadan Zarug, MD
Xiaosong Zhang, MD PhD
Happy Holidays from the Massachusetts Chapter, American College of Physicians
What's New
Contact Information
George M. Abraham, MD, MPH, FACP,
Governor, Massachusetts Chapter
Lynda Layer, CAE
Executive Director
Ph: 781-434-7317
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May 2010 posts
Swedish-Affiliated Surgeon to Perform Live Robotic-Assisted Surgery for National Meeting of Urologic Surgeons
Up in the Air over Swedish Issaquah
Here's a fun look at the Issaquah hospital construction site. Construction continues at an aggressive pace! Literally, tons of re-bar and concrete are being installed and poured.

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Open Source for America Announced
More than 70 organizations and individuals have joined to form a "unified voice" encouraging the U.S. government to support and participate in open source software.
In the announcement, David Thomas, principal with Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti and spokesman for the Open Source for America campaign says, "Open source software may not be a cure-all, but it could save billions of dollars, help foster innovation and empower our government to work smarter."
The new group will help serve as an advocacy group, coordinating open source communities to collaborate with the U.S. government in areas of free and open source software. The impressive list of founding members includes individuals and groups such as The Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and O'Reilly Publishing, the Linux Fund, Open Source Initiative, and Zenoss. The Board of Advisers includes Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Publishing, and Stormy Peters of the Gnome Foundation.
To see who else is involved or to become a member, visit: http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/.
Issue 166/2014
Tag Cloud
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
Webcam Hijackers Busted
Authorities in 16 countries take action against users of the imfamous BlackShades malware tool.


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ST. LOUIS — In some of his strongest words yet during the negotiation process with restricted free agent defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong on Wednesday reiterated his desire to get a deal done as soon as possible.
The 23-year-old Pietrangelo finished out a three-year entry level contract at the end of last season. Blues training camp opens on Sept. 12 and Pietrangelo, one of the largest puzzle pieces on the roster, remains unsigned and it's unclear when the stalemate will end.
"I wouldn't say we're disappointed," said Armstrong, who was given the new title of president of hockey operations by the club Wednesday to go along with his GM duties. "We're having constant dialogue now. We would like him to be signed, he would like to be signed also.
"This isn't a one-way street on either side. Both sides want to do something that they're comfortable with. Probably both sides will end up doing something they're both a little bit uncomfortable with."
Armstrong remains in close contact with Pietrangelo's agent, Don Meehan of Newport Sports Management. The Blues' GM also spoke with Pietrangelo recently when both were in Calgary for team Canada's Olympic orientation camp.
"We've made it very clear since the summer that Alex will be a St. Louis Blue when he plays hockey again," Armstrong said, also heading off any potential rumors that another team may try to sign Pietrangelo with a high-dollar offer sheet. "We've kept enough cap space to address any team that thinks that they can poach him from us. That won't happen, he'll be a St. Louis Blue whether it's this weekend, two weeks, two months, a year from now ... time will tell.
"But we hope to get it done as quick as possible. We have enough cap space to match anything and we have the ability to do more things if we need more cap space."
Why is this deal taking so long?
"There's ebbs and flows in different deals and this was one where it's taken a little bit of time to get some serious traction," said Armstrong, who cautioned reporters not to jump to conclusions regarding the length of the contract or the financial details. "Hopefully we're getting that traction now."
Armstrong mentioned three potential deadlines -- the start of camp, the regular season opener Oct. 1 and the final one on Dec. 1. That's the date where an unsigned restricted free agent must sign or risk sitting out the entire season.
"I'm not even thinking about holding out," Pietrangelo told a Canadian Press reporter last week. "I'm thinking about training camp and being there Sept. 11, 12, whenever we're going to start up, and be ready for the first game of the season."
Other Meehan clients have been holdouts, including Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban a year ago. Subban eventually signed a two-year "bridge" contract and then went on to win the Norris Trophy.
Kings defense star Drew Doughty sat out the 2011 preseason before signing an eight-year, $56 million deal. Subban and Doughty both are Meehan clients.
"They are one of the most powerful agencies with a lot of players and they certainly know what they're doing," Armstrong said. "I'm confident in my ability and our ability as an organization to know what we're doing, too. We have to get this done at some point for Alex, for us. When that date is, I'm not sure."
Another young defenseman of comparable age and talent potential, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, got a six-year, $33 million deal from Phoenix.
Pietrangelo, the fourth overall pick in 2008, has 29 goals and 121 points in 219 NHL games. He remains vital to the Blues' future.
"I find in almost every negotiation the player wishes he could have gotten a little bit more and the team wishes they could have got him for a little bit less," Armstrong said. "That's usually the time to make the deal.
"We're not going to be able to fulfill everything that Alex wants and Alex is not going to be able to give us everything that we would like to have in this negotiation. We want it done where he believes he's paid fairly and where we believe we're paying him fairly."
Armstrong did broach the possibility the Blues may have to bring other defensemen to camp.
"I think we've been clear on what we think of Alex as a person and as a player," Armstrong said. "We want him here for the long term and we've made adjustments to our roster to ensure that we can keep him here."
Armstrong, who has been the Blues' GM since 2010, earned a promotion Wednesday along with former Blues defenseman Bruce Affleck. Affleck was promoted to President of Business Operations and now also holds the title of Alternate Governor along with Armstrong.
Contact reporter Norm Sanders at 239-2454, firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @NormSanders


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Don't worry – I am not advocating as part of the Revolution that we start watering down our fuel tanks with a blend of Super Unleaded and J.J Prüm '96. What I am in fact referring to are the aromas that are often found in Riesling which smell unmistakably like petrol.
Perhaps I should first begin by defining what I mean by "petrol".
It has long been observed that top quality mature Rieslings – that is, those with around five or more years in the bottle – develop what some like to refer to as a petrol-like aroma. Surprisingly, these aromas are highly prized amongst Riesling aficionados as contributing to the classic "Riesling nose", although many prefer to describe them as having a "mineral", "chalky" or "iodine" character rather than petrol which sounds degrading.
These subtle and complex aromas should be distinguished from the fierce and full-on petrol aromas which can often dominate young Rieslings, especially those which have been produced in hotter regions with short growing seasons, such as Australia.
It is generally considered that these aromas in both young and mature Rieslings are caused by the presence of a compound called 1,1,6-trimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene (shortened, I can only assume for the sake of our sanity, to "TDN"). But recently three of France's top producers have controversially suggested that the powerful petrol aromas found in younger Rieslings is a result of a fault in the winemaking process.
The first out the blocks was Michel Chapoutier. For those of you who are not familiar with Monsieur Chapoutier, he is one of the leading producers in the Rhône who has recently turned his attention to Alsace, launching his wines (which include a few Rieslings, as well as a Pinot Gris and a Sylvaner) under the name "Schieferkopf". Chapoutier told Decanter magazine in May that "Riesling should never smell of petrol. That is a result of a mistake during winemaking." Chapoutier has subsequently qualified his statement by saying that he is referring to the petrol aromas found in young Rieslings not those found in more mature Rieslings.
Hot on the heels of Chapoutier was Oliver Humbrecht, winemaker at leading Alsatian producer Zind-Humbrecht. Humbrecht was reported as saying in New York last month that the petroleum aromas found in young Rieslings are unattractive and caused predominantly by the decision to harvest under-ripe grapes and where the wine suffers from "reduction". He suggests that reduction (the formation of hydrogen sulphide in the wine) can occur where the wine is made in airtight environments (such as stainless steel), through the poor use of sulphur or where the wine has been left on the lees (these are the dead yeast cells, pulp, skins, etc, that separate from the juice during fermentation).
What is interesting here is that Humbrecht, like Chapoutier, points the finger at the winemaker, suggesting that decisions made during the winemaking process directly affect whether or not the Riesling will develop a predominant petrol aroma in its early life – a characteristic which he views as a fault.
Then came the third in our trio – Pierre Trimbach of Domain Trimbach in Alsace. Agreeing with Humbrecht and Chapoutier, Trimbach suggests that petrol aromas in Rieslings which are less than five years old are a result of reductive imperfections. However, interestingly, he suggests that these imperfections are not in fact not caused by mistakes made by the winemaker but rather the direct result of how climatic and geological factors, such as water stress, soil types and exposure to UV rays, effect the vines and grapes.
Although these three high profile Frenchmen cannot reach agreement on the contributing factors for these petrol aromas, they appear to be of one mind when it comes to the view that this characteristic is undesirable in younger Rieslings.
But despite this view, it should be pointed out that this is by no means the opinion shared by everyone, as Chapoutier himself admits: "we are far from finding a consensus on this issue".
At the end of the day we must not forget that drinking wine is meant to be a pleasurable experience and taste is subjective – some embrace the full-on forecourt-fuelled aromas that dominate some Rieslings, whilst others view these as overbearing and a sign of a fault in the winemaking process. Find what you like and sip away.


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The Nativity and Tree display in downtown Cumberland is right where it should be for the third consecutive year now because of the efforts of a small committee of volunteers and a host of passionate supporters!
From sometime in the 1920s until the 2009-2010 season, this display was sponsored by the city of Cumberland. The annual tree-lighting ceremony was held there at Washington and Greene streets until around 1980, when it was relocated to the corner of Baltimore and Liberty streets.
The role of Emmanuel Episcopal Church throughout the years has been to grant permission to use their grounds. The church has the Nativity scene captured in a photograph dated 1932 and on a commemorative plate dated 1952.
Christmas 2009 was a time of controversy. In Chambersburg, Pa., there was a 20-year tradition of a private garden club owning a Nativity scene which volunteers erected at the fountain in the town square in front of the courthouse.
When an atheist group asked for permission to erect a sign celebrating the solstice, the borough council denied that request and ordered the immediate dismantling of the Nativity scene erected one week earlier.
A petition was launched and a protest march drew over 200, but the end result was the relocation of the Nativity scene across the square to the grounds of the Presbyterian Church.
In Chambersburg, the controversy was over a private group erecting a religious display on public property.
The case was the reverse in Cumberland. Here, the 80-year-old tradition involved a religious display owned by the Mayor and City Council, stored in a city warehouse, and erected by city employees on the grounds of a church.
At a time when the city was devastated by severe cuts in state funding, two individuals threatened to sue the city over the tradition.
The former city administrator announced to Parks and Recreation staff in December 2009 that when they dismantled the display in January 2010, the tradition would end.
That's when our "Cumberland Nativity and Tree Display Committee" was formed. Gary Bartik, Greg Getty, Rueben Lease, Ed Mullaney, and I joined together and formulated two goals: 1) to see that the tradition continued; and 2) to do so quietly without community controversy.
Our efforts last year were supported by 49 different donors, including 31 from Cumberland; four from LaVale; three from Ridgeley, W.Va.; and one each from Cresaptown; Frostburg; McCoole; Bloomington; McHenry; Friendsville; Fort Ashby, W.Va.; Winchester, Va.; Haymarket Va.; Dillsburg, Pa.;, and Jacksonville, Fla.; most coming with Christmas cards and encouraging notes!
We have a federal Employer Identification and a business checking account. We have raised $6,040 in donations and had $5,227.61 in total expenses last year.
We begin this season with a fund balance of $812.39, which is more than enough to pay the electric bills for several seasons yet to come. However, we would like to raise funds for repairs and improvements.
For example, last year's biggest expense was $3,435.07 for new C9-LED lights (2,000 bulbs!), and $900 for Earth & Tree of Frostburg to prune the large pine tree and string the new lights — at half cost as their contribution.
Any individual or business or civic group who would like to contribute towards our efforts may do so by making a check payable to "Cumberland Nativity & Tree Committee," and mail it to 101 Oak Street, Cumberland, Maryland 21502. All donors receive a receipt and a detailed financial report at the end of the season.
The kind of community spirit displayed in the generous support of this old tradition is truly something to celebrate!
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By Julie Huss
---- — DERRY — The Greater Derry/Londonderry Chamber of Commerce has a new leader.
Stacey Bruzzese was named the Chamber's executive director, replacing former director Gina Gulino-Payne, who left the job earlier this year.
Bruzzese begins her new job Sept. 1.
"I am extremely excited to be joining this organization," Bruzzese said. "There are countless economic development projects, growth opportunities for businesses and initiatives within each of the communities which will tie in nicely with new offerings within the Greater Derry/Londonderry Chamber of Commerce."
William Parnell, president of the Chamber's board of directors, said Bruzzese will serve as a full-time leader, bringing a wealth of experience to the job including more than 15 years of marketing experience and a strong background working with local chambers of commerce.
"We are very happy about it," Parnell said.
He said the Chamber received about a dozen applicants. The final two came before the board, with Bruzzese coming out on top in the end for the $45,000 a year job.
"Stacy just struck a nerve with everybody," Parnell said. "She came highly recommended."
Parnell said Bruzzese also had the necessary qualities that will be a good fit for the Chamber including a strong attention to market trends, problem-solving talents, and creativity when it comes to event planning and program creation, all part of the local Chamber's plan for the years ahead.
The Chamber currently has approximately 260 members representing Derry, Londonderry, Manchester, Windham, Chester, Auburn, Atkinson and Hampstead.
The organization hosts many economic development forums, special events, and community activities throughout the year, including an annual Citizen and Business of the Year prize and the holiday parade in Derry.


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The first of the Miller Center's presidential oral history projects began in 1981 with the Center's ground-breaking work on the Jimmy Carter White House. Center scholars, led by Bancroft Prize-winning Professor James Sterling Young, recognized that a valuable source of learning about the American presidency was not being fully exploited: the personal knowledge and institutional memory of those freshly departed from the White House.
The importance of this resource was accentuated by the fact that Carter was the first president elected in the post-Watergate era—meaning that there would be no Oval Office recordings for historians to mine in examining this administration. Under Young's direction, the Miller Center moved to fill this crucial historical deficiency. From 1981 to 1985, more than fifty members of the Carter administration—including President Carter himself—recorded oral history interviews, creating an important archive of primary source materials for students of Carter and his time. We have also included a complete list of Carter administration officials who were interviewed, as well as those scholars who conducted the interviews.
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Erwin C. Hargrove Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good
Charles O. Jones Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress
Robert A. Strong Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy
Charlotte Saikowski "Five Years Later . . . Another View of Carter"Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 1985
Robert A. Strong "Anecdote and Evidence: Jimmy Carter's Annapolis Address on U.S.-Soviet Relations" Miller Center Journal, Spring 1994
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By Conor Walsh Correspondent
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---- — It's not something people around high school football give much thought to.
There's not much a team can do about it. They're at the mercy of the schedule.
But is there any difference between playing on Friday night or Saturday afternoon?
For Gloucester and Manchester Essex, the answer's the same. They want to be under the lights.
"I like Friday night," Gloucester coach Tony Zerilli said. "High school has always been Friday night as long as I can remember. On Friday nights kids prepared for it all day long. I think our kids have always been Friday night kids."
Manchester Essex coach Mike Athanas echoed Zerilli.
"I like anything that is consistent," Athanas said. "Playing on Friday night, the kids have a routine. They do their schoolwork, go home, get something to eat, then come back down and get ready to play. Anything that's the same is good. Playing on different days can be tough to deal with."
It's no surprise the two local coaches favor Fridays. Those are their home games. With the tradition of Gloucester's Newell Stadium and the atmosphere of Manchester Essex's Hyland Field, it's hard to argue with Zerilli and Athanas about their preference.
The renovation of Newell Stadium has forced the Fishermen and Hornets to share Hyland Field as their home field this season, causing some changes to the routine. The Fishermen have three Saturday home games this season.
But the love for the lights hasn't changed.
The atmosphere, predictably, is generally better at a Friday night game. Fans, students and adults alike, tend to come out in force, and there's something about a night game that seems to get people fired up.
Plus, the routine of school followed by football, as Athanas pointed out, helps the teams find a rhythm over the course of the season.
Even still, though, could Saturday be better?
One of the obvious concerns of a Saturday game is the kids on each team being, well, "kids" on Friday night, and the crowd tends to be more subdued on Saturdays.
But for some local schools, like Beverly, Saturday afternoon football is as much a staple of fall as Friday nights at Newell Stadium.
The extra day of preparation, recovery and rest can never hurt, either.
Could Saturdays be an advantage? Zerilli doesn't think so.
"Saturday has a weird feel to it, sleeping in, getting up, trying to get ready," Zerilli said. "If you go Friday night, you have all day to get your mind set right."
For Manchester Essex, they've got another day thrown into the mix this weekend when the Hornets host Northeast on Sunday afternoon.
That gives them a long week of preparation. It also, however, leaves them with a short week heading into next weekend's tilt with Hamilton Wenham.
Sunday breaks Athanas' routine, and the Hornets' coach doesn't like that.
For some programs, Saturday's the day.
The consensus around Cape Ann, though, is that it's Friday night or bust.
"Can't do too much extra in terms of hitting, you can put extra time in on X's and O's stuff," Zerilli said of the extra time offered by a Saturday game. "But I'd give up the extra day to play Friday night. That extra day could help you put a few more stuff into your game plan, but as far as hitting, blocking and tackling at practice there isn't much more you can do with that extra day."


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ZBB Energy posts loss, announces hybrid electronics orders
ZBB Energy Corp. of Menomonee Falls is supplying power electronics to help buses run as hybrid electric vehicles.
The company was awarded a long-term supply agreement from an unidentified engine manufacturer for electronics used in hybrid electric buses.
That contract alone has generated orders totaling $1.36 million, ZBB said, including orders valued at $500,000 that are being shipped in this quarter.
ZBB's Tier Electronics subsidiary, which ZBB bought last year, designed and is now producing "a controller that connects the energy storage with the motor that drives the drive shaft," said Eric Apfelbach, the company's chief executive, during an investor presentation Tuesday. "In that application there's a lot of dynamics going on between braking, accelerating, storing energy and letting it go. That's all done in that controller."
The power electronics market is a secondary business for ZBB, whose main focus is on focused on developing energy storage units for the military, international and microgrid markets.
During the quarter installed and commissioned an energy management system at the Illinois Institute of Technology as well as orders for the U.S. military at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and $600,000 in orders for its Chinese joint venture.
The company is also eyeing the utility sector, with the possibility of supplying electric utilities to install the systems at utility substations, said Apfelbach.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has initiated a proceeding that could provide financial incentives for electric utilities to invest in energy storage systems as a means to boost power reliabiity.
ZBB is still aiming to be cash-flow positive by the end of its fiscal year in June. The company has ramped up production of energy storage units in Menomonee Falls, as part of a shift from research and development and prototypes to commercial production.
ZBB said its sales in the quarter that ended Sept. 30 rose 11% but its loss widened during its fiscal first quarter.
The company said sales in the quarter ended Sept. 30 were $1.82 million, up from $1.64 million last year. The net loss was $2.88 million, or 4 cents a share, compared with $1.7 million, or 5 cents a share, last year.
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Incredible, they went from losing 95 cents for every dollar in sales to losing $1.58 for every dollar in sales.Hide replies
If this were anything but a "green" company feeding at the public trough they would have went out of business long ago.....
Not really true. The only federal goodies they got were in the form of tax credits. If you don't make a profit, you don't pay tax. If you don't pay tax, you can't use a tax credit!
The principles will buy more stock before another round of offering to attract more "investors". Why did Johnson Controls spin this unit off???Hide replies
It was just one of several JCI projects spun off to raise cash and cut expenses years ago when the original Die Hard program faltered.


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Purpose: In trying to address different learning styles, this activity asks students to study the world of the I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th-Century Canada website in order to create a screenplay. Depending on time and technological resources, this project can be done as a full-fledged movie shoot with a camera, or performed as a skit in front of the class. Regardless of the method, it is important that students attempt to capture the language and nuances of the I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th-Century Canada website.
1. Students can first visit www.imsdb.com/ to view sample scripts and examine proper script format, if that is what the teacher desires. Scripts are free to view and include many contemporary movies.
2. In groups, students should begin by writing the script for their movie production. All scripts need to take into account the language and situations of the I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th-Century Canada website and may also be supplemented by using findings from Activity 1.
3. Students can now start making their own storyboard for their script. A storyboard is a process whereby the shots and action of the movie are quickly sketched out on paper so that each shot is known before students begin filming. Templates can be found at www.xinsight.ca/tools/storyboard.html. The storyboarding process is similar to making a comic, although the artwork tends to consist of stick figures rather than elaborate drawings (although big budget films are known for having detailed storyboards).
4. Once students have completed the above steps, they can begin to shoot their movie. Students can attempt to find adequate costuming, but as it could be difficult to recreate the 19th century, it is not necessary. Instead, attention should be paid to capturing the feeling of the situations that men and women would have found themselves in during the 19th century while contemplating love and marriage.


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PORTAGE – A Salix woman was charged with endangeringthe welfare of children after her 2-year-old daughter was found wandering at a busy intersection in Wilmore.
State police in Ebensburg said a motorist spotted the girl trying to cross at the intersection of routes 160 and 53 the morning of March 18. The driver pulled her vehicle into a nearby parking lot, took the child by the hand into a market and called police.
The girl was wearing a diaper and jacket, and had her shoes on the wrong feet, troopers said.
Police said the mother, Jamie Ileen Miller, 22, of the 100 block of Taylor Lane, told officers she had worked late and spent the night at her mother's home in Wilmore. When she awoke in the morning, her daughter was gone.
A charge of reckless endangerment was filed before District Judge Galen Decort of Portage.
Game agency reports another eagle shot
HARRISBURG – A second bald eagle's death in Pennsylvania in the past month has been blamed on a bullet wound, the state Game Commission said Friday.
The agency said it made that determination after examining the carcass of a mature eagle found dead May 5 in Butler County. It was found in a Clay Township stream by local residents.
Earlier this week, the agency said it was looking into the shooting of a mature male bald eagle found injured on May 10 in Allegheny Township, near Loretto. That eagle later died from the wounds.
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Bald eagles are classified as threatened in the state but are no longer on the federal endangered species list.
Reservations due for family fishing day
BELSANO – Cambria County and the state Fish and Boat Commission are sponsoring a free family fishing program from 1 to 5 p.m. June 2 at Duman Lake County Park near Belsano.
Participants will learn basic fishing skills like knot tying, casting, baiting a hook and taking a fish off the hook. After practicing these skills, they will have the opportunity to fish.
No fishing license is required. Equipment and bait will be provided by the Fish and Boat Commission.
Adults must bring a child and children must bring an adult.
Preregistration is required by Wednesday. Participants can register online at www.fishandboat.com/calendar.htm. Those without Internet access can call Mandy Smith at 443-9841 from 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Most 'kids for cash' convictions upheld
HARRISBURG – All but one of the convictions of a former county judge in the "kids for cash" juvenile justice scandal in northeastern Pennsylvania were upheld Friday by a federal appeals court.
A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected nearly all of the arguments made by attorneys for Mark Ciavarella, who is serving a 28-year sentence for racketeering, fraud, conspiracy and other offenses.
At the heart of the case was Ciavarella's involvement with privately run juvenile detention centers and allegations that as a juvenile judge he sent children to the centers so that he could make money.
"In many cases, with the intent of increasing his personal gain, Ciavarella disregarded the recommendation of juvenile probation officers evaluating the juvenile offenders' cases and ordered their detention," Judge Julio Fuentes wrote.
The panel threw out one count of honest services mail fraud, saying the statute of limitations had expired, and sent the case back to the district court for resentencing.
With the criminal investigation, the state Supreme Court threw out about 4,000 juvenile convictions in cases handled by Ciavarella. And in December, a federal judge approved a nearly $18 million settlement for claims from about 1,600 juveniles that they were wrongfully incarcerated by judges.
Ciavarella attorney Al Flora said he hoped to discuss the ruling soon with his client. He said no decision has been made on an appeal to the full 3rd Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ciavarella is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Pekin, Ill. Another Luzerne County judge who pleaded guilty in the same scandal, Michael Conahan, is serving a sentence of more than 17 years at a federal prison in Coleman, Fla.
Nemacolin casino set to open July 1
FARMINGTON – Pennsylvania's newest casino will open to gamblers in just over a month.
Officials announced that the $60 million Lady Luck Casino will open on July 1 at noon, pending regulatory approvals.
The casino is part of the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Fayette County. It will feature 600 slot machines, 28 table games, a restaurant and a lounge.
Earlier this week, the state Gaming Control Board approved a plan to charge non-resort guests a $10 entry fee to the casino.
Nemacolin is one of two facilities in the state with a resort casino license. Those casinos are meant to be an amenity to a resort and not a draw unto themselves.
Lady Luck is operated by St. Louis-based Isle of Capri Casinos Inc.
Historic ferry faces possible closure
FREDERICKTOWN – The commissioners of one of two counties linked by a historic ferry have voted to cease its operations on Sept. 3.
The Fayette County commissioners voted Thursday to pull the plug on the Fredericktown Ferry. Commissioners in Washington County, on the other side of the Monongahela River crossed by the ferry, have said they would wait for Fayette's decision before moving ahead.
It's possible Washington County might try to find another entity to manage the ferry.
A ferry has run between Fredericktown and LaBelle since the 1700s, and the steel ferry operating now dates to 1948
It is funded with liquid fuels taxes in both counties, but has lost money and now serves only about 90 cars daily since the Bakewell Bridge opened nearby last year.


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Endless Summer
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Director Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a surfing trip around the world. Despite the balmy climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter. They travel to the coasts of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii in a quest for new surf spots and introduce locals to the sport. Other important surfers of the time, such as Miki Dora, Eugene Harris, Phil Edwards and Butch Van Artsdalen, also appear.
Its title comes from the idea, expressed at both the beginning and end of the film, that if one had enough time and money it would be possible to follow the summer around the world, making it endless.
The narrative presentation eases from the stiff and formal documentary of the 1950s and early 1960s to a more casual and fun-loving personal style filled with sly humor. The surf-rock soundtrack to the film was provided by The Sandals. The "Theme to the Endless Summer" was written by Gaston Georis and John Blakeley of the Sandals. It has become one of the best known film themes in the surf movie genre.
When the movie was first shown, it encouraged many surfers to go abroad, giving birth to the "surf-and-travel" culture, which prizes finding "uncrowded surf", meeting new people and riding the perfect wave. It also introduced the sport, which had become popular outside of Hawaii and the Polynesian Islands in places like California and Australia, to a broader audience.
Brown took the Endless Summer to several Hollywood studio distributors but was rejected because they did not think it would have mainstream appeal. In January, he took The Endless Summer to Wichita, Kansas for two weeks where moviegoers lined up in snowy weather in the middle of winter and sold out multiple screenings. Distributors were still not convinced so Brown rented a theater in New York City where his film ran successfully for a year. After the success of the run, Cinema 5 won the distribution rights.
When The Endless Summer debuted, it grossed over US$20 million.
Roger Ebert said, "The beautiful photography he brought home almost makes you wonder if Hollywood hasn't been trying too hard."
Time Magazine wrote, "Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport."
The New York Times' Robert Alden wrote, "The subject matter itself — the challenge and the joy of a sport that is part swimming, part skiing, part sky-diving and part Russian roulette — is buoyant fun."
In 1994, Brown released a sequel, The Endless Summer II, in which surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Hynson and August. It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed in the time between the two movies, and there are scenes of windsurfing and bodyboarding. The film illustrates how far surfing had spread, with footage of surf sessions in France, South Africa, Costa Rica, Bali, Java, and Alaska.
In 2000, Dana Brown, Bruce's son, released The Endless Summer Revisited, which consisted of unused footage from the first two films, as well as original cast interviews.


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Fineman: Kucinich a Yes on Healthcare Reform
by Jonathan Singer, Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 08:53:27 PM EDT
Via National Review online editor John McCormack and The Hill reporter Jordan Fabian, Howard Fineman apparently reported tonight that Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, previously a no on healthcare reform, will vote aye. If this report pans out -- and we should know for certain by tomorrow morning, when Kucinich is slated to hold a press conference -- the Democrats would have their first announced no-to-yes switcher on healthcare reform. The goal of 216 is looking increasingly achievable for Nancy Pelosi.
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Nazareth Borough wants an outside source to provide police services, and will ask six municipalities -- including Palmer Township -- to provide a proposal detailing the services available.
Nazareth Borough Council on Monday unanimously approved a motion to send a "Request for Proposal" to Upper Nazareth, Bushkill and Palmer townships. Colonial Regional Police, and each municipality that makes up the department, will also be included.
Nazareth Mayor Fred Daugherty Jr. in December 2011 withdrew his recommendation to buy coverage from Colonial Regional Police after negotiations failed to move forward.
This time around, the borough has guidelines it would like each municipality to keep in mind:
- Three-year contract at a cost not to exceed $2.8 million.
- The borough's three full-time officers must be added to the police department of the contracting municipality with wages and benefits at least equal to the current Nazareth police contract.
Police Chief -- $67,830
Patrolman (over 6 years) -- $59,660
Patrolman (after 4 years) -- $55,979
- The contracting municipality must agree to lease and operate a substation at 134 S. Main St.
- The contracting municipality agrees to periodic foot patrols in the business district and business checks.
- Nazareth Borough Council shall be permitted to appoint a liaison to attend all Police Committee meetings and receive all correspondence.
The deadline to reply is Dec. 31.
The decision to dig deeper into the option of contracting police services, according to Council President Dan Chiavaroli, was made after merger talks led to a dead end.
Korine Behler, a Nazareth resident who recently has been outspoken on the ongoing policing issue, tried to understand why Council isn't interested in rebuilding the Nazareth Borough Police Department.
"I think [Police Chief Thomas Trachta is] perfectly capable of making a run of it," Behler said. "Give him a year. Give him a say with who he's hiring. I think that should be a big part of it. Is there something I'm missing? Why isn't [rebuilding the borough's department] an option? I don't understand."
Marlene Stanat echoed Behler's sentiment.
"Why can't we just strengthen our own police department," she wondered. "Our police department is trying to give us coverage. Why rely on other people when we have a police department that's capable?... We need people who know us. We need people who know the circumstances of Nazareth and know what's happening in Nazareth. What does [Palmer Township] know about us?"
Councilman Jack Herbst, who is also the chairman of Council's Police Committee, admitted that it remains to be seen if contracting services will save the borough money.
"At this point in time, we don't know if it will save us money or not," Herbst said. "It depends on the proposals we get back. Once we get the proposals, we will see what is best for the community."
If contracting services doesn't work out, the councilman -- prompted by Behler -- stopped short of saying his colleagues would revisit the idea of rebuilding the borough's department.
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Fetish Footwear
Though we understand that some readers might take one look at these buckle-bedazzled, strap-happy, spike-heeled shoes and decide to skip this style entirely, we promise they're not as extreme as they seem at first glance. Though seriously tough and sometimes complicated, these shoes give a much-needed edge to the season's lady-like lace dresses and floral prints. They also look equally sharp when worn with a simple, monochromatic outfit, as Mary-Kate Olsen demonstrated backstage at Rock & Republic's when she styled her little leather jacket and sleek leggings with a subversive pair of Givenchy sandals (try Steven by Steve Madden's Ginn Booties ($169.95) for a similar look).
One of the other excellent aspects of this trend is the simple fact that there are so many variations available this season, from the extreme runway versions (like the freakalicious styles at Gareth Pugh or Givenchy's straightjacket boots) to ultra-wearable contemporary options. Whether you're ready to unleash your inner dominatrix or are just looking for something to tide you over until the weather warrants over-the-knee boots, we found a fetish-friendly style for you. Just read on for the shopping details!
1. Pour La Victoire Sacha Gladiator Bootie ($314)
One of our favorite shoe brands as of late, Pour La Victoire, made an exceptional tough-girl bootie for fall. Available in gray or black, these four-inch heels have just the right amount of studding and straps for this footwear trend. While wearing them with a body-conscious frock will make you look a wee prostitutesque, they'll look great with a short, semi-shapeless dress.
2. Givenchy Ankle Bootie ($665)
Some of the season's best bondage booties and sandals can be attributed to the genius Givenchy. The house's designer, Riccardo Tisci, is responsible for the marvelous multi-strap shoes recently seen on fashion favorites like Mary-Kate Olsen and Vanessa Traina. These cage-like black patent leather and suede ankle booties are lust inducing and seriously sexy, so wear with caution.
3. Sergio Zelcer Chipper Ankle Boot ($297.95)
One of the simplest versions of this look comes courtesy of Sergio Zelcer. Their Chipper Boot has lots of sex appeal-stiletto heel, wrap-around ankle strap, understated silver buckle-while still remaining chic, thanks to its minimalist design.
4. Steven by Steve Madden Slasssh Booties ($189.95)
The moment we spotted these affordable and trend-accurate peep-toe booties, we knew we had to include them in this Go Buy Now. They're wild enough to share a name with our favorite member of GnR, but the fetish elements are subtle enough to appeal to people with slightly more conservative personal style.
5. Bebe Alexandra Multi-Strap Pump ($149)
There's something very prim and very provocative about these peep-toe platform heels from Bebe. We think they look like something a Victorian schoolmarm-turned-imperial-mistress would wear (this is a compliment). Show off their buttoned-up style and wear them with dove gray tights and a mid-length full skirt.
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On ABC's GMA. Its related to his health :(
Will FSU's Jimbo Fisher Be The Next Second Year Coach To Win A National Championship?
Baby does the tomahawk chop! In honor of FSU snagging the #1 recruiting class in the nation today during national signing day, I wanted to share this video of my son, Elijah, doing the tomahawk chop! He was just 2 days old when I shot this video. Way to go, Coach Jimbo Fisher! Can't wait for the 2011 football season! It's going to be a great year...we're going all the way to the ACC & the BCS Championships! Go Noles!
Your fearless leader, Bud Elliott, was kind enough to join us on the Slow States podcast last night to talk about how the end of the Bobby Bowden era might compare to what we're undoubtedly going through very soon with Joe Paterno. Thanks again to Bud for his help -- and you guys should really take up a collection to replace his laptop fan. The man deserves it for running such a fine site. Best of luck in the ACC Championship Game this weekend, 'Noles!
Go halfway down the page. The middle column has a "Radio" box. Jimbo's interview is the second interview under Beano Cook's interview (about the Arkansas radio announcer that lost her job for wearing a UF hat). Jimbo talks Ponder, the loss of McCray and Fortson, JaMarcus Russell, the early Oklahoma game.
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An accreditation agency has placed the DeKalb County School District on probation, citing long-term leadership issues after a six-month investigation.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday (http://bit.ly/VLOLWr ) reported the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools found evidence of fiscal mismanagement and school board members influencing which schools athletes chose to attend.
The district has not lost accreditation, but has been placed on probation until Dec. 31, 2013.
Lillian Govus, a spokeswoman, says the school district will work collaboratively to review findings of the investigation, and will address issues that led to the district being put on probation.
The state school board will also discuss the findings within 30 days.
With over 98,000 students enrolled, the DeKalb County School District is the third largest in Georgia.
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---- — DERRY — It's an annual tradition as local gardeners gather greenery from their own gardens to share with friends.
The Derry Garden Club hosted its annual holiday greens workshop at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Derry.
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I'm of two minds regarding this "classic" screwball comedy -- and, judging by the dramatic division of opinion seen on the movie's iMDB Web site, I'm not alone in my appraisal. The wacky Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant mash-up contains plenty of hilarious and memorable bits of slapstick and lashings of clever verbal humor, but, BOY, do you have to exercise some patience in order to buy the entire package. For one thing, it's an even bet that you'll want to kill Susan Vance, Hepburn's dizzy heiress character, before the movie is one-quarter over. I have never been a big fan of "comedies of humiliation" in which one individual -- in this case, Grant's hopelessly "square" paleontologist Dr. David Huxley -- receives the brunt of the abuse. Director Howard Hawks' later film I Was a Male War Bride (1949), though less critically revered than Baby these days, actually worked better for me than did Baby because (1) both Grant and Ann Sheridan were affected to some extent by frustration and comic distress while waiting to consummate their marriage and (2) Sheridan was far less annoying than Hepburn. It's not hard to imagine Grant and Sheridan's marriage lasting for a good long while; the hopes for Grant and Hepburn's hook-up seem much dimmer, even without taking into account the ultimate fate of Huxley's painstakingly assembled brontosaurus.
Despite its more irritating aspects, this movie "works" in part because of a superb supporting cast of well-regarded character actors, all of whom are in excellent form. Charlie Ruggles' fluttery Major Applegate, Barry Fitzgerald's bibulous gardener, Walter Catlett's bumbling, self-important constable, May Robson's pompous dowager, and Fritz Feld's stiffly officious Dr. Lehman are as good a "bench team" as I've ever seen, and the fact that their distinctly drawn characters are so different from one another makes for much hilarity, especially in the jail scene near the end of the movie. The only real problem with the cast is that, as Hawks himself admitted later in life, everyone was a screwball of one sort or another (well, perhaps the two leopards and George the digging dog should be excepted), and therefore the audience lacked a character with whom to identify. Well, I didn't think Huxley was that much of a nut, and I definitely identified with his travails, for reasons that anyone who knows me will immediately recognize.
I watched the DVD of the movie twice, once with Peter Bogdanovich's commentary (complete with Bogo's imitation of Hawks' low, drawling voice). The commentary was lightly enjoyable but didn't really explain why this movie, which did not do well upon original release, has ascended so dramatically in terms of critical acclaim. It's funny how many films have been "reassessed" over time, but so little attention has been paid to "reassessments" of the original "reassessors." My verdict: Baby is fun to watch, but don't necessarily believe all the hype.
Friday, January 14, 2011
DVD Review: BRINGING UP BABY (RKO, 1938)
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- Joe Torcivia said...
According to IMDB (The most valuable resource on the whole freakin' Internet?), for Fritz Feld, "Baby" was directly preceded by "Swingtime in the Movies" – the WB musical comedy short I wrote of in my DVD Blog review of George Raft and Humphrey Bogart's "They Drive By Night".
Fritz Feld did not do his trademark "POP" in "Swingtime". Did he do it in "Baby"? If so, is it possible that you may have seen the debut of this gesture?
Apparently, there was a sequel to "Swingtime" called "Out Where the Stars Begin" (later in the same year – 1938), in which Feld plays the same temperamental director character! I wonder if he "POP"ed in that one?
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---- — MANISTEE — West Shore Medical Center expects to lose between $3 and $4 million in Medicare dollars this year and next, but hopes to make up the difference with a higher number of inpatient stays.
"I'm not sure how the numbers will play out," said Julie Blaney, marketing manager. "We're hoping to make up a difference by bringing more beds online, but we have a big Medicare population."
The small Manistee hospital, with 25 beds and a $60 million budget, is getting a one-two punch in Medicare reimbursement cuts.
First, it's losing 2 cents on every Medicare insurance dollar beginning in April because of the recent federal budget sequester. That will mean up to $400,000 in lost revenues annually, Blaney said.
The second punch will land much harder. The hospital predicts Medicare losses of up to $4 million next year. That's because it will likely lose its "critical access" designation gained back in 2009. Critical access hospitals get higher Medicare dollars because they deliver necessary health care in rural areas.
"It's going to be a big hit," Blaney said.
West Shore may lose its critical access status because it's located less than 32 miles from Ludington's Memorial Medical Center. Critical access hospitals can be no closer than 35 miles from the next hospital, Blaney said.
The threatened loss of the coveted designation surprised hospital officials because nothing changed since it was approved four years ago, Blaney said.
"Certainly the distance between us and our neighbor hospitals did not change," Blaney said.
West Shore tried to argue that Manistee's drawbridge and two train crossings would delay patient travel, but with no luck.
"They were not persuaded, but we are continuing to look at all our options," Blaney said.
Hospital officials are trying to persuade their legislators to push for an exception, but are preparing for the worst, she said.
The county-owned hospital will apply for an acute care designation so it can return 20 beds to the hospital it was forced to remove in 2009. That's because critical access designation allows a maximum of 25 beds. West Shore has to prove the beds are necessary to get them licensed by the state.
West Shore employs about 350 full-time equivalent employees, a number that has remained the same since the first of the year. The recent loss of a surgeon was unrelated to the Medicare changes, she said.
West Shore doesn't plan to lay off employees, even with the Medicare cuts, Blaney said.
"We're energized here," she said. "We have a lot of work to do, and we're doing it. We're just buckling down and getting it done."


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DA Charges Woodlands HS Official Stole From Teachers' Fund
The Congers resident is accused of writing $778,995 in checks to himself, his kids and his mortgage company.
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He faces up to 15 years in state prison on the grand larceny charge, a felony.
Gluberman, a Congers resident, had been treasurer of the Greenburgh Teacher's Federation and the Greenburgh Teacher's Welfare Fund until he was promoted to assistant principal of Woodlands High School in 2012.
The Welfare Fund receives taxpayer money to cover teachers' and administrators' dental, vision and legal benefits, as negotiated between the district and the unions.
According to the DA, he wrote checks from the fund to himself, his two daughters and to pay property taxes on two homes over a 7-year period. He forged the signature of the fund's president for the required dual authorization.
"This defendant used and abused his position as a trusted educator and administrator to both defraud the taxpayers of the Town of Greenburgh and steal from his colleagues and associates. His cynical raiding of the welfare fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars comes at a time of tight school budgets and dishonors the teachers and administrators who work diligently and professionally on a daily basis in the Greenburgh school system," said District Attorney Janet DiFiore.
Bail was set at $50,000 cash over $100,000 bond. Gluberman's next court date is Jan. 10.
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